Surrogates and Artificial Intelligence: Why AI Trumps Family.
The increasing accuracy of algorithms to predict values and preferences raises the possibility that artificial intelligence technology will be able to serve as a surrogate decision-maker for incapacitated patients. Following Camillo Lamanna and Lauren Byrne, we call this technology the autonomy algo...
| Publicado en: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 26; no. 6; pp. 3217 - 3228 |
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2020
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