An AI-powered death clock promises to predict the exact day you will die, down to the second.
The Death Clock app, available for download in the Google and Apple stores, analyzes the life decisions users regularly make, their past habits, their health conditions, and their family history of disease to “precisely” determine when they will die.
Users are asked to enter a series of health markers, such as their cholesterol and blood sugar levels, as well as their exercise schedule, water intake, mental health, and the current status of their romantic and plutonic relationships.
The app is supported by data from 1,200 international life expectancy studies that looked at 53 million participants, including information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Although it seemed like a morbid exercise, I took the test to see exactly how the results would play out.
After answering the usual health questions, the Death Clock app asked about the ages of my biological grandparents, how often I spend time with friends and family, and how negatively my mental health affects my daily life.
The only way to get an accurate result is to answer each question as honestly as possible and then wait with bated breath as a card with an image of the Grim Reaper appears on the screen to dictate your death sentence.
To my surprise, the reaper informed me that I will live to the age of 101 and even went so far as to tell me how I will die (cancer, cardiovascular disease, or another chronic condition) and provided me with a countdown to my death. day.
To my surprise, the reaper informed me that I will live to the ripe old age of 101 and even went so far as to tell me how I will die (cancer, cardiovascular disease or another chronic condition) and provided me with a countdown to my death. day
The Death Clock app was based on 1,200 life expectancy studies using 53 million participants. It asks users to enter information such as their glucose levels, their mental health capacity and when their grandparents died.
Not everyone was enthusiastic about the Death Clock app, and one person complained about the response they received.
‘Just what I needed: an app that would tell me that my nightly seizures are slowly killing me!’ one person complained in X, although he did not specify how many years they gave him.
“Forget motivational talks, I have the AI Death Clock counting my calories and my life,” he added.
If you are worried about knowing the day of your death and prefer to remain in the dark, the Death Clock app gives you some hope.
When I received my results, the app offered me the tools and advice I needed to prolong my life and said that weightlifting in particular plays an important role.
Despite going to three yoga classes and doing up to 150 minutes of cardio each week, the Death Clock app said I could live three years longer if I incorporated weight lifting and increased my water intake and cardio.
“Focusing on lifting weights regularly can contribute to muscle health and metabolic stability, aiding in weight management,” the app said.
Of course, I won’t know how accurate the results are until July 19, 2092, but Franson has touted it as “the most accurate prediction of when you’re going to die.”
‘The death clock is not just to scare you. We do a health assessment,” Franson told DailyMail.com in October.
Death Clock app predicts the age you will live to and provides a second by second countdown
He explained that he and his team trained AI using longevity studies, including those from life and health insurance companies, to look at the impact sleep, supplements and other factors have on how long a person lives.
‘So we were able to take all the existing data and methodology and basically reproduce the best of its kind, using the old methods. And then we added a layer of artificial intelligence to it,” Franson said.
People can get their death dates for free, using the three-day trial, but if they want to receive a continuous longevity plan, they can purchase a monthly subscription for $15 or an annual subscription for an annual fee of $60.
Franson recommended that people take advantage of the app’s free trial, saying, “There’s probably no more important date in your life than the day you’re going to die.”
Users are given longevity tools that will help them live a longer life and tell them how many extra years they will live if they make those changes to their life.
The Death Clock results offer a “pretty significant” improvement over standard life table expectations, according to the app’s developer, Brent Franson.
Life tables are tools that show the probability that a person in a specific population will live or die at a given age, which are used by demographers, actuaries (especially in insurance companies), and population ecologists.
The AI-powered app aims to change this by offering personalized recommendations on nutrition, physical activity, health screenings and stress management, proving that your death date is never set in stone.
Those who use the Death Clock app are asked a series of questions not only to assess how healthy they are, but also to provide information about relationships and mental health that could contribute to a shorter life.
After asking your age, the app asked other questions like “How much sugar do you consume each day?”, “How often do you sleep seven hours or more,” and “How often do you do cardio each week?”
The results show how they ranked among others who answered the questions, as more than half of those surveyed reported spending more than eight hours a day sitting and consuming between one and seven alcoholic drinks a week.