Warning Issued to Anyone Using AI ‘Death Calculator’

Once upon a time, anyone wondering how long they might live would look at their parents and other ancestors, guess whether all those terrible things in the news about this or that vice are really as deadly as they say, and come up with a number that was as good a guess as any.

But in the 21st century, that’s the job of technology, where what’s called a “Death Calculator” has been created by Danish researchers so that artificial intelligence can do all that guessing for us.

And since this is the 21st century, and fooling the gullible online is the most common human impulse left before the robots do that for us as well, there are now copycat apps that have drawn the ire

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