Should We Bring Back the Dead as AI Personas?
Should We Bring Back the Dead as AI Personas?
I am creating several scenarios for the sessions I faciliate. I would love to run this one here!
IMAGINE: In 2125, AI and robotics have advanced to create perfect android replicas of deceased loved ones. These replicas not only look and sound like the original person but also behave, emote, and adapt with startling realism, drawing from extensive digital and personal archives. Families embrace them for comfort, while others view them as unsettling echoes of the past. Society is divided on whether these androids are a gift of connection or a distortion of human life.
If you had the chance to bring back a loved one as an AI, would you?
No.
This.
No. Should AI be run out on a rail yes.
That's not "bringing back the dead", obviously. It's sadly curling up with a chat bot and pretending it's a person you deeply miss. That's fucking bleak.
If you had a chance to bring back a loved one as an AI, would you?
No, because it wouldn't be my "loved one". It'd be a facsimile that inherently falls short of being a copy, and would not be alive.
No thank you. That's weird and emotionally manipulative.
I feel like that would be upsetting for most people. A loved one dies, you grieve, then they come back as a close approximation of themselves and act as a regular reminder that they died?
I would say no.
Replacing someone with a digital version of themselves just means the original is forgotten and replaced. They are still dead and gone but the people interacting with the AI can pretend they aren't.
Unless you can actually upload their consciousness into a digital avatar, I would say it's more of a benefit to the people still living and a disservice to the dead.
Yes and no, it depends how we used it.
If it's used in good ways such as helping our grandma or grandpa who missed their dead family, I supported it.
But if it's used in bad ways such as scamming someone or luring someone, that's a big NO for me