
27/07/2025
🧠💀 AI Can Now Predict Major Life Events — Even Your Death
In a stunning breakthrough, researchers have built an AI model that can forecast the biggest events in your life — including when you might die.
Yes, this isn’t sci-fi. It’s science. Meet life2vec 🧬
📊 What is life2vec?
Developed by scientists in Denmark and the U.S., this model was trained on life-event data from 6 million people over 10 years.
It analyzes:
🏥 Health records
💼 Job history
💰 Income levels
🎓 Education
🧠 Psychological traits
⚙️ How does it work?
Built on transformer architecture (like ChatGPT), it treats a person’s life as a sequence of events, similar to how language models treat words in a sentence.
The result?
🔮 It can predict mortality risk, personality traits, and future outcomes better than any previous system.
🌍 Why it matters:
✔️ Could revolutionize public health, insurance, and policy-making
✔️ Offers new insights into how social and economic factors shape our lives
✔️ Opens up possibilities for personalized interventions
⚠️ But there are big questions…
🔐 Privacy
🧩 Ethics
⚠️ Risk of misuse
As AI gets more personal, researchers are urging serious discussions about how and where this kind of power should be used.
📚 Source:
Savcisens, G., Eliassi-Rad, T., Hansen, L.K. et al. Using sequences of life-events to predict human lives. Nature Computational Science, 2024. [DOI: 10.1038/s43588-023-00547-6]
🚪 The future of predictive AI isn’t just about what you’ll click — it might soon predict how long you’ll live.
Are we ready?