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A hand holding a smartphone that displays a chatbot conversation.

A hand holding a smartphone that displays a chatbot conversation.

After You Die, You Could Be Resurrected as a Chatbot. That’s a Problem.

Irina Raicu, director of Internet Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, quoted by Popular Mechanics.

"This sort of chatbot is already a violation of a deceased person’s autonomy—they have no say in which bits of their social data go into the final chatbot, for instance. And creating a chatbot modeled on a person who has never consented in the first place feels unfair, because they aren’t a part of the decision-making process."

Irina Raicu, director of Internet Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, quoted by Popular Mechanics.

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