Digital Legacy
Digital recreations of dead people need urgent regulation, AI ethicists say
Alex Hearn - The Guardian
Fears ‘deadbots’ could cause psychological harm to their creators and users or digitally ‘haunt’ them.
Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything
Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell
Bell and Gemmell explain the ever-increasing access to electronic personal memories – both “cloud” services such as Facebook and huge personal hard drives.
"He's still There": How Facebook facilitates continuing bonds
with the deceased
Akinyemi, C. and Hassett, Alex
This study explored the processes involved when the bereaved use Facebook to continue bonds with the deceased.
A Cyber All Project: A Personal Store for Everything
Gordon Bell
Cyber All is a project to encode, store, and be able to retrieve all of a person’s information for personal and professional use.
Digital Immortality
Gordon Bell and Jim Gray - Microsoft Research
Technical Report
University of Bath PHD Student Presentation on Responsible Innovation
The University of Bath hosted a Responsible Innovation Challenge for its PHD students to help solve the data and technological challenges faced by local charities and businesses. As part of their brief, one group focused its attention on Dorothy House’s ambitions for a future-proofed digital will or legacy.
Co
mmuning with the dead online: chatbots, grief, and continuing bonds
Joel Krueger (University of Exeter) Lucy Osler (Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen).
As our technologies evolve, so does how we grieve. In this paper, the researchers consider the role chatbots might play in our grieving practices.
Digital Immortality on an App: The Ethics of Legacy Chatbots
Colin Frick & Scott R. Stroud, Ph.D. - Media Ethics Initiative
Center for Media Engagement, University of Texas at Austin.
CASE STUDY: The Ethics of Legacy Chatbots
