A new app called Death Clock predicts the date of its users’ deaths and offers tips on how to push that date back.
TechCrunch wrote about an iPod Death Clock app way back in 2006 — but developer Brent Franson told Bloomberg that with an AI trained on more than 1,200 life expectancy studies, his app offers a “pretty significant” improvement on standard life tables.
For an annual subscription fee of $40, Death Clock will both suggest ways to improve my habits and show a clock counting down to my estimated death.
That death date is designed to be shared online, but it also has practical implications. As financial planner Ryan Zabrowski told Bloomberg, “A huge concern for elderly people, our retirees, is outliving their money,” so accurate mortality estimates could help.
What’s your take on this app? I downloaded the app and went through all the questions. From my perspective, just a usual set of questions with one of them sadly suffering from bias. The question with bias is the one when they ask how often you consume frozen dinners or canned food. The issue is that consuming some canned foods like sardines will make you live longer. So you can’t put it in the same bucket with eating highly processed salty frozen dinner. Further everybody claims to be using machine learning and Ai. In this case it seems that they are simply assigning the weights to your answers which doesn’t really require Ai. Further I didn’t pay for the app so I didn’t get a death sentence date. Lucky me 
Very nicely put together app but if you frequent this forum I suspect there is little you will learn.
Good for the general population though
Re canned sardines: they could be as unhealthy as other canned foods. Canned is canned no matter what’s inside. Wild caught sardines are healthy, but most of us substitute with canned sardines thinking it’s the same. It’s not!
You are missing my point and are making a different point. My point is that questionnaire makes you think that eating canned sardines is unhealthy. Au contraire, it is a rich source of calcium, phosphorus, potassium and mega-3 fatty acids and appears to be promoting longevity. Check out this longevity study on canned sardines https://vocal.media/feast/the-impact-of-sardine-consumption-on-portuguese-longevity.
Also you are making a different unrelated point that in your opinion eating wild caught [not canned] sardines ( I think you meant not canned as canned sardines can be wild caught) is healthier than canned. This may or may not be the case. However, there is no study I’m aware of that could support your statement.
In summary the true issue here that I’m going after is that folks just don’t eat enough small fatty fish canned or not and hence obtaining it from any source closes nutrition gaps.
Not missing any points. IMO any canned product is less healthy or even unhealthy than same fresh product. I would prefer wild caught fresh salmon to its canned version. Same with sardines or apples.
The study referenced by JKPrime used canned sardines.
Most participants, both in Portugal and Canada, again rigorously followed the sardine regimen. The great majority of participants continued to pick up their bimonthly allowance of sardine cans, while a minority of them (less than 2%) kept acquiring the sardines on their own.
Canned sardines, according to Benjamin Frank, who advanced the nucleic acid theory of longevity, contain more nucleic acids than fresh.
I downloaded the Death Clock and gave it a spin. At 80, it gave me 11 more years and added a year if I subscribed to and, I guess, followed its guidance. Like others have already said, I found no evidence of AI. I came up with about the same number with a simple google search, specifying that I was healthy and exercised. It could be a useful app for some people because it is more-or-less focused on the right general topics. I removed the app after the experiment. No reason to keep around.
You can live longer just by buying a subscription?
Says I’ll live to 96 if I cut out processed foods. If not, 81.
I didn’t pay and the app said I would live to be 96 with my current habits and 99 if I followed their recommendations behind pay wall.
Not impressed. At one drink a week they have me down for " dying from alcohol complications". Sorry, That’s bs. The science is strong.
I have a strong self preservation instinct and I will not try this!
I fear it could say 5pm.
I’d never use this or any app that predicts one’s life expectancy. It would give me such stress, there’s no doubt I’d experience accelerated aging as a result.