A new app called Death Clock uses artificial intelligence to predict exactly when you will die, based on data such as diet choices, exercise, stress levels and sleep.
Available on Android and iOS in the U.S., the app offers free death date predictions and personalized recommendations through a $40 annual subscription.
Brent Franson, the app’s developer, told Bloomberg that AI was trained on a dataset of 1,200 life expectancy studies involving 53 million participants to provide more accurate predictions than traditional actuarial tables.
The app suggests lifestyle changes to increase longevity and features a countdown clock displaying your predicted death date, to the day, alongside a picture of the grim reaper.
Despite its morbid premise, Death Clock is proving to be very popular, with 125,000 downloads since its July release, according to …