When will you die? Danish researchers build AI algorithm that aims to predict life, and death

Researchers in Denmark are using artificial intelligence and data from millions of people to predict the stages of an individual's life from beginning to end, with the goal of raising awareness of the technology's capabilities and risks. "From one perspective, lives are simply sequences of events: People are born, visit the paediatrician, start school, move to a new location, get married, and so on," Lehmann said to AFP. However, the program's revelation sparked accusations of a new "death calculator," with some fake websites duping individuals with offers to utilise the AI system for a life expectancy forecast, frequently in exchange for inputting personal data. "It can be used against us to discriminate us so that you will have to pay a higher insurance premium, or you can't get a loan from the bank, or you can't get public health care because you're going to die anyway," she said. "On the web, we're already seeing prediction clocks, which show how old we're going to get," Tranberg said.