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AI can keep you alive forever. Should it?

AI can keep you alive forever. Should it?

It's Been a Minute vor 1 Jahr

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The AI digital afterlife industry is here. But can legal and
ethical frameworks keep us safe from it?

Companies are already popping up to create artificial life-like
renderings of your loved ones. So-called "deadbots" can mimic
speech patterns and unique facialo gestures, and they can
purportedly help people cope with grief. But they are also ripe for
commercialization. What's stopping companies from using these
so-called AI deadbots from selling you products?

This is AI + U. Each Monday this month, Brittany is exploring
how you are already seeing the impacts of AI in your daily life. In
this episode Brittany is joined by NPR's culture correspondent
Chloe Veltman to get into the rise of of the AI digital afterlife
industry.

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