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Theo Farrant

The inventor of the 'suicide pod' says AI should decide who can end their life

Philip Nitschke has spent more than three decades arguing that the right to die should belong to people, not doctors.

Now, the Australian euthanasia campaigner behind the controversial Sarco pod - a 3D-printed capsule designed to allow a person to end their own life using nitrogen gas - says he believes artificial intelligence should replace psychiatrists in deciding who has the "mental capacity" to end their life.

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