Warning issued to anyone using ‘AI death calculator’

If you’ve been feeling a little curious lately about when you’ll die - don’t be.

According to the intelligent team behind the popular ‘AI death calculator’, it’s not a good thing to live by and they’ve come out to warn participants.

Essentially, this funky AI tool can predict when you’ll die, and event how.

The researchers from Denmark first revealed their creation Life2vec in December last year, and it immediately generated a buzz due to it being formatted as an AI chat bot.

However, one of the key points to its success was that it can also predict with 78 per cent accuracy whether you’ll be rich too.

The Danish researchers are warning online users to keep safe. Getty stock images

But where there is success, there are those wanting to cash in on the money as numerous copycat companies have created their own apps, though they aren’t legitimate - they’re scammers.

Now, the researchers have warned users about the dangers of copycats and how their websites can look legit, but they actually ‘have nothing to do with us and our work’.

On their website, they told users to be ‘be careful,’ of scams, even though there is a clear sign that they aren’t affiliated with other sites.

Their software is private and is stored at Statistics Denmark as it contains sensitive information which needs to be handled correctly.

Scammers are trying to steal data. Getty stock images

So, if a website is claiming to have it online, there’s no way it could be true as it’s not available on the internet.

Essentially, these scammers may be trying to steal your data, passwords, credit information or contact details. They could even try to spread harmful viruses to your device to take this information.

The Danes continued: “We are aware of Life2vec social media accounts, and there is at least one fraudulent website,’ they said. ‘We are not affiliated with these or any other entities that claim to use our technology.”

The intelligent solution was created after the Danish researchers and the US compiled data from health and demographic records for six million people within the 35 to 65 age group to predict their deaths based on health and lifestyle choices.

According to the researchers, they were able to predict the deaths of over half of the participants who had died between 2016 and 2020 with a 78 per cent accuracy based on information such as their profession, health, income and other tid bits.

Do you want to know when you'll die? Getty stock images

But it can also predict a lot more than death, according to the team.

Sune Lehmann, the lead author of the study and also a professor at the Technical University of Denmark confirmed: “It could predict health outcomes.

“So it could predict fertility or obesity, or you could maybe predict who will get cancer or who doesn’t get cancer.

“But it could also predict if you’re going to make a lot of money.”

That’s some crazy stuff.

I’m pretty sure we’d all like to know if we’re about to make the big bucks in the future or not.

Just be careful of the website you click on to find out this prediction.

Topics: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Health, Money, Weird

Britt Jones