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Can you live forever through artificial intelligence? Some people are using AI to create versions of themselves for their loved ones after their gone.

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Can you live forever through artificial intelligence? Some people are using AI to create versions of themselves for their loved ones after their gone.

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Michael Bommer likely only has a few weeks left to live. A couple years ago, he was diagnosed with terminal colon cancer.

Then, an opportunity arose to build an interactive Artificial Intelligence version of himself through a friend’s AI company, Eternos, so his wife Annet can interact with him after he dies.

More and more people are turning to artificial intelligence to create digital memorials of themselves.

Meanwhile Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basińska, a research assistant at the University of Cambridge, has been studying the field of “digital death” for nearly a decade, and says using artificial intelligence after death is one big “techno-cultural experiment” because we don’t yet know how people will respond to it.

Artificial intelligence has opened the door for us to “live on” after we die. Just because we can, should we?

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This episode was produced by Kathryn Fink. It was edited by Courtney Dorning. Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.