Chatbots That Resurrect The Dead - The Conversation

Deepfakes put celebrity faces on porn. There are programs to clone voices like Overdub. So why not "resurrect" the dead with a chatbot? This raises all kinds of questions about personal privacy, pre and post-mortem, and if such a thing is ethical despite the potential to assuage grief. Yet nobody's asking if Turing-complete reconstructions of the departed are the departed, nor if they are truly conscious as-we-know-it. Joel Abrams gets into the nitty gritty on this topic from both philosophical and technological perspectives. Coming in at an oblique angle is Brandy Schillace's brilliant question, "If You Transplant A Human Head, Does Its Consciousness Follow?" Max Levy got Ms. Schillace to talk about how an old, blood-splattered notebook demanded answers while shedding light on many morally-questionable and objectionable experiments inspiring her new book Mr. Humble And Dr. Butcher. (CS)

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