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This AI app claims it can calculate the day you’ll die

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Robert Heinlein’s first short story, titled Life-Line, was published in 1939 and tells the tale of the inventor of a machine that can precisely predict when you’ll die with 100% precision. Eighty-five years after that chilling tale of inevitability versus free will, you can download an app called Death Clock that uses AI to attempt the same feat. Admittedly, the app doesn’t claim infallibility and is aimed more at encouraging you to do things that will improve your outlook but my first impression of technology predicting your demise remains the same.

The Death Clock app predicts your “death day” based on details you provide about your lifestyle: diet, exercise, stress levels, sleep – you know, the usual culprits. Developed by a company called Most Days, the app uses artificial intelligence trained on a massive dataset of over 1,200 studies involving 53 million people, according to a Bloomberg report.

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