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Maybe more of a misinterpretation by AI and/or author than full on hallucination.

"Life insurers can predict when you'll die with about 98% accuracy."

"98%" appears in the citation[1], but as the ratio of actual deaths to expected deaths. (i.e. 98% of the deaths they expected actually occurred.) Some months that figure was ~104%, so it's not a measure of accuracy.

1: https://www.soa.org/4aa060/globalassets/assets/files/resourc...



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