ChatGPT-based posthumous memories of a terminally ill patient: metabioethics and generative AI at the service of palliative medicine

Abstract

Any approach than seeks a bioethical justification for the employment of ChatGPT technology in post mortem interactions has a potentially significant impact on palliative medicine. Indeed, it can lead terminally ill patients to improve their own autonomy by encouraging them to customise, train or personalise ChatGPT in order for such a tool enables some post mortem interlocution of their “memories” (entropic audiovisual records on key issues) with friends and relatives. Conjecture that may trigger positive effects regarding the end-of-life perception/consciousness as a relevant existential value.