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Palliative Care AI Standard of Care: Prognosis Prediction, Symptom Management, and End-of-Life Planning

AI Enters the Most Human Moment # Palliative care occupies medicine’s most sensitive territory, where technology meets mortality, where algorithms encounter grief, and where prediction tools must serve deeply human values. Artificial intelligence is increasingly deployed to predict survival, optimize symptom management, identify patients who would benefit from palliative care consultation, and support end-of-life planning conversations. But when an AI predicts death that doesn’t come, or fails to predict death that does, the consequences extend far beyond clinical metrics.