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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
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 chatbot, researchers from the University of Cambridge suggest. “Rapid advancements in generative AI mean that nearly anyone with internet access and some basic knowhow can revive a deceased loved one,” said Dr Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basińska, one of the study’s co-authors at Cambridge’s Leverhulme centre for the future of intelligence (LCFI).
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