Digital recreations of dead people need urgent regulation, AI ethicists say

Fears ‘deadbots’ could cause psychological harm to their creators and users or digitally ‘haunt’ them

Digital recreations of dead people are on the cusp of reality and urgently need regulation, AI ethicists have argued, warning “deadbots” could cause psychological harm to, and even “haunt”, their creators and users.

Such services, which are already technically possible to create and legally permissible, could let users upload their conversations with dead relatives to “bring grandma back to life” in the form of a …

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