All articles tagged with #digital immortality
The article discusses the potential for digital immortality through AI and brain-computer interfaces, highlighting how China and Russia are exploring these technologies to extend the influence of leaders like Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin beyond their physical lives, raising concerns about authoritarian control and ethical implications.
The use of generative AI to create convincing replicas of dead loved ones raises concerns about the burden it places on the living. Maintaining automated systems and digital legacies requires significant labor, from managing passwords and account information to navigating decaying smart homes. Devices, formats, and websites also decay over time, making the idea of perpetuity unrealistic. The financial and environmental costs of sustaining AI replicas are high, and the question of who has the authority to create these replicas is contentious. Additionally, the power dynamics and labor behind digital production highlight the psychological costs for those left to care for these creations indefinitely.