Artificial intelligence predicts time of death

Researchers from the Technical University of Denmark, the University of Copenhagen, the International Telecommunication Union, and Northeastern University in the US have developed an artificial intelligence model called Life2vec that uses large amounts of data to predict events in people’s lives, including estimating the time of death.

According to the study, the results of which were published in Nature Combination Science, a journal of the scientific journal Nature, the model, which is based on the transformer architecture, was trained on health data and labor market information for 6 million Danes.

After initial training, the model outperformed other AI models, predicting outcomes such as personality traits and time of death with high accuracy. However, the researchers acknowledge ethical concerns about privacy and bias in the data.