Posted 12/21/2023, 5:37:12 PM
Researchers Develop Controversial AI to Predict Life Events
- Scientists claim to have developed an AI model, called "life2vec," that can predict when people will die based on personal data inputs
- The model was trained on health, labor, education, and other data from Denmark's population of 6 million
- Researchers say the model views human life like a "sequence of events," similar to words in a sentence
- The lead researcher acknowledges ethical issues with predicting life events and says similar profiling already happens on social media
- It's unclear if the AI's mortality predictions are accurate; more research is needed on whether this technology should actually be pursued