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Grief in the Age of Digital Immortality

Big Tech is creating digital avatars of deceased loved ones, raising ethical concerns about grief and data exploitation.

Artificial intelligence

fromFuturism

4 months ago

Project to Resurrect Dead Grandmas Sparks Controversy

2wai offers HoloAvatars—AI renditions and digital twins that simulate conversations with loved ones, historical figures, celebrities, and fictional characters.

Digital life

fromNature

5 months ago

Outside the window

An aging man undergoes a full-brain digital backup while past losses, love, and the promise of immortality confront his fear of death.

fromTheregister

7 months ago

As Xi and Putin chase immortality, ponder digital dictators

See told me sufficient material exists to create AI-powered interactive versions of historical figures like Napoleon, and that researchers are already working on such reconstructions in the hope they will help bring history to life. I mentioned See's prediction to friends and family who all immediately condemned the idea because they fear activists would conduct digital exhumations of history's vilest characters - fascist dictators and the like - to insert their hateful ideologies into contemporary debate.