To be disturbed by prospect of AI immortality

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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?

Isn't this the plot of Jurassic Park?!

It creates a whole series of moral and legal issues, that I don’t see anyone really effectively grappling with. I’d be tempted to say stop all further development until we can take stock on where AI is taking us, and put into place the safeguards and parameters first. Of course, that’s pretty much impossible as it would need international co-operation.

Also, the Parkinson thing is just weird. The epitome of doing something because we can rather than it addressing any particular demand or need.

I was about to say the same thing. With celebraties there are hundreds of hours of audio and visual footage which allow the AI models to build up a profile of someone's characteristics and manurisms to be able to recreate them.

Your average person won't have this data to play with.

@Jc2001 if you knew time was limited you could create? Even if crudely? In theory.