AI could replace doctors in life-and-death decisions – ‘suicide pod’ inventor

An Australian euthanasia campaigner has reportedly proposed an AI system to evaluate people’s capacity for assisted dying

The inventor of the controversial Sarco suicide pod, Philip Nitschke, said artificial intelligence could one day replace psychiatrists in assessing whether people seeking assisted dying are mentally capable of making the decision, Euronews reported on Thursday.  

The Sarco, short for sarcophagus, is a 3D-printed capsule designed for one person to enter...