I am creating several scenarios for the sessions I faciliate. I would love to run this one here!
IMAGINE: In 2125, AI and robotics have advanced to create perfect android replicas of deceased loved ones. These replicas not only look and sound like the original person but also behave, emote, and adapt with startling realism, drawing from extensive digital and personal archives. Families embrace them for comfort, while others view them as unsettling echoes of the past. Society is divided on whether these androids are a gift of connection or a distortion of human life.
If you had the chance to bring back a loved one as an AI, would you?
No.
This.
Oh hell no
That’s not “bringing back the dead”, obviously. It’s sadly curling up with a chat bot and pretending it’s a person you deeply miss. That’s fucking bleak.
If you had a chance to bring back a loved one as an AI, would you?
No, because it wouldn’t be my “loved one”. It’d be a facsimile that inherently falls short of being a copy, and would not be alive.
I feel like that would be upsetting for most people. A loved one dies, you grieve, then they come back as a close approximation of themselves and act as a regular reminder that they died?
No. Should AI be run out on a rail yes.
No thank you. That’s weird and emotionally manipulative.
I struggle to see why anyone who isn’t actively grieving would want this.
Until we can upload our brains to a computer, you’re not getting anything close to the real person. No memories, no lived experiences, no secrets that affect how they act. You get a chatbot that is trained on the most shallow of data on a person. Cool, grandpa’s personality…kinda…
I wouldn’t want what OP is suggesting, but if we hadn’t lost the cassette and VHS tapes that Mom left behind, I’d love to hear her voice again and possibly use it on a mental health focused local AI. Work towards using her voice on karaoke tracks to sing alongside her on her favorite songs, or even for custom audiobooks.
She could never be recreated, but the things she stood for could be carried through, in pursuit of remembrance and celebration of who she was rather than grieving and coping. It’s been 27 years since she last provoked my creativity as a child, and I’m certain she’d approve of careful, personal, and local use to keep her creative energy flowing.
Huh, this sounds like it might actually have some utility. Delta.
I would say no.
Replacing someone with a digital version of themselves just means the original is forgotten and replaced. They are still dead and gone but the people interacting with the AI can pretend they aren’t.
Unless you can actually upload their consciousness into a digital avatar, I would say it’s more of a benefit to the people still living and a disservice to the dead.
Necromancer series covers this. If you haven’t read it it’s worth your time
Yes and no, it depends how we used it.
If it’s used in good ways such as helping our grandma or grandpa who missed their dead family, I supported it.
But if it’s used in bad ways such as scamming someone or luring someone, that’s a big NO for me
