Artificial Intelligence Can Listen. But Can It Witness?

What the rooms of palliative care and the dying reveal about the limits of AI.

I have spent the last thirty years in a landscape most people spend their entire lives trying to avoid. I have walked into the hushed kitchens of the dying and the cluttered living rooms of the exhausted. In three decades of home health and end of life care, I have learned to read the specific silence of a house where a human is convalescing or their li…