Technology to Meet the Dead Again Digitally : Considerations on Artificial Intelligence of the Dead and its Problems

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  • 死者とデジタルに再会する技術 : 死者AIの現在とそれがもたらす諸問題を考える

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Artificial intelligence that represents the dead (dead AI) has developed rapidly in recent years. This technology is unique in that it “creates” new behavior of those who are dead by learning from big data of those who have died. Its uniqueness consists of three characteristics: the possibility that the dead can change, the interactions between the dead and us, and the high transferability of the technology from the public to the private sphere. Recently, in Japan and in other countries, some experimental dead AIs were featured in TV programs and have caused a number of problems. Some of these problems derive from the conflict between emotional needs or expectations for dead AI and ethical resistances to it. These ethical resistances include the following three points: first, this technology could harm us emotionally; secondly, it could change (images of) the past dead; thirdly, it could violate the right or dignity of the dead, though this right or dignity has not been legislated in ethical and academic discourse.

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