Researchers Build AI That Predicts Life Events, Raising Ethics Concerns
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Danish researchers built an AI algorithm called life2vec that predicts life events like health, wealth, relationships based on patterns in data.
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The algorithm examines sequences of life events like birth, education, jobs to forecast outcomes. It predicts death accurately in 78% of cases.
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The technology raises ethical concerns around discrimination and privacy as similar algorithms are used commercially.
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Researchers want life2vec to counter big tech's private use of similar algorithms solely for profit.
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Online "death calculators" already exist but some are unreliable, showing the need for oversight.