[Simulated Part Three] Immortalized: Building An AI Afterlife

When a loved one dies, a big part of the grieving process involves letting go of the role they once played in your day-to-day life. But with new developments in AI technology … the dead can live on in new and interesting ways. Anita meets a tech journalist who built bots of her parents to see how AI could preserve their memories for the long term. She also talks with a philosophy professor about the ways that ancient Chinese philosophy can address AI's emerging ethical issues and how grief tech fits into a long history of traditions around death and mourning. Meet the guests: - Charlotte Jee , news editor for MIT's Tech Review, shares the process of creating her AI parents and a survey of where we are with grief tech today - Dr. Alexis Elder , associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota Duluth, talks about how Chinese philosophy can guide communal conversations about the future of this technology and how it fits into our society's grieving process Read the transcript | Review the podcast on your preferred platform Follow Embodied on X and Instagram Leave a message for Embodied