AI trying to predict your death is not as scary as it soundsBy F.D. The paper that spawned the fracas, in the journal Nature Computational Science, did involve using AI to predict death, but it was not very precise. Will doctors and hospital administrators put too much faith in the decisions or forecasts of AI because it is fast and sounds confident? Can the medical system use AI responsibly if people have unrealistic or magical ideas about what it can do? He is looking for a more coherent scientific understanding of the way algorithms can predict complex phenomena, he said.
