Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a powerful tool with the potential to enhance palliative care by improving patient identification, personalizing treatment, supporting serious illness communication, and streamlining clinical workflows. Drawing on interprofessional expertise, this article in the Journal of Palliative Medicine outlines ten key ways AI may strengthen palliative care practice, including predictive analytics for earlier interventions, AI-assisted documentation and goals-of-care conversations, patient and caregiver support through chatbots, and tools to improve clinician efficiency and well-being. While AI could expand access and optimize limited resources, the authors emphasize that adoption remains early and must be approached cautiously. Significant ethical, logistical, and equity challenges, including data privacy, algorithmic bias, transparency, environmental impact, and the risk of widening health disparities, require careful oversight.