The Download: making tough decisions with AI, and the significance of toys

This week, I've been working on a piece about an AI-based tool that could help guide end-of-life care. We're talking about the kinds of life-and-death decisions that come up for very unwell people. Often, the patient isn't able to make these decisions--instead, the task falls to a surrogate. It can be an extremely difficult and distressing experience. A group of ethicists have an idea for an AI tool that they believe could help make things easier.