# An AI Tool Is Trying to Predict Your Risk of Getting Many Diseases Years in Advance – Here’s How It Works.

1 Opinion October 1, 2025 The Conversation ![Professor Natalia Levina and João Sedoc headshots](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/2025-10/levina_sedoc.png?itok=h11Z6p7f)By Natalia Levina, João Sedoc, and Hila Lifshitz-Assaf

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Being able to instantly and accurately predict the trajectory of a person’s health in the years to come has long been seen as the pinnacle of medicine. This kind of information would have a profound effect on healthcare systems as a whole – shifting care from treatment to prevention.

According to the findings of a recently published paper, researchers are promising just that. Using cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the researchers built Delphi-2M. This tool is seeking to predict a person’s next health event and when it’s likely to happen in the next 20 years. The model does this for a thousand different diseases including cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

To develop Delphi-2M, the European research team used data from nearly 403,000 people from the UK Biobank as an input into the AI model.

Read the full [*The Conversation* article](https://theconversation.com/an-ai-tool-is-trying-to-predict-your-risk-of-getting-many-diseases-years-in-advance-heres-how-it-works-265909).
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*Natalia Levina is Paganelli-Bull Professor of Technology & International Business and the Ph.D. Program Coordinator for Information Systems at NYU Stern. João Sedoc is Assistant Professor of Technology, Operations, and Statistics at NYU Stern.*