engadget.com — If there's one thing we're a tad skeptical of, it's a piece of silicon making a decision that will ultimately decide whether we live or perish, but bioethicist David Wendler of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, suggests that the unbiased computer may actually be a more reasonable decision maker than your frantic family member
Mar 16, 2007 View in Crawl 4
synystarMar 17, 2007
bah.. wrong article. Stupid tabs...
nerdtekMar 17, 2007
And after all when the governments health care overhead get's too much they can outsource to Diebold ;-) !
Closed AccountMar 17, 2007
So really what you're saying is it's the coders who have the final word.
tgunnerMar 17, 2007
Death Decision Calculator: LOADING.... DoneDeath Decision Calculator: CALCULATING..ERROR: WINDOWS HAS ENCOUNTERED AN UNEXPECTED WRITE ERROR AT Fx89993000000 AND MUST REBOOTPerson: awww....
murdatsMar 17, 2007
computer says "ask again later"
soldanMar 17, 2007
I will put my trust in a living will...thanks..
Closed AccountMar 17, 2007
It makes a fair difference if If the 32% of the time that relatives don't match the sick persons wishes are situations where they don't kill them, when the person would have chosen death, but the computers 10% wrong are choosing death when the person would have chosen life/treatment!
spookyttwsMar 17, 2007
I assume you're responding to the the Grandma Milkshake article, but I guess it (somehow) works here too.
glmonkeyMar 17, 2007
The only way this would be cool is if they made it look like a slot machine and the doctor had to pull the handle to make the decision. If they live all the lights and sounds go off.
teratogenMar 17, 2007
And thus we sow the seeds of the Butlerian Jihad
deathfiredMar 17, 2007
"computers are serious too Mikel"-Night Rider-