On the radio this morning they mentioned that we'll be able to use AI to recreate the appearance, voice and personality of someone that has died, to essentially resurrect them from the dead so we can continue to chat to them, be with them, and love them, just as if they were still alive.
People increasingly share/store enough data about their habits, choices, preferences etc that a picture can be built of their personality, and maybe we'll soon be able to opt into an immortality process to capture even more of ourselves, including our internal world.
I felt really disturbed at the thought of my partner dying and if, given the opportunity to recreate him in AI form, whether I would do it? I can't guarantee that I wouldn't.
I just felt so heartbroken at the thought of it. That it would be him but not him. I don't think I could bear it. What does everyone else think?
AIBU to find this so disturbing and sad?