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When I die, please do not produce an AI version of me

When I die, please do not produce an AI version of me

Someday, luckily not soon, I will throw this deadly coil and in a short time will be forgotten. Unless someone makes an ulanoff AI.

In short, don't do it.

I had this epiphany and I realized the need for a public statement that one day could protect my similarity from appearing after my death after reading about the tragic case of a man from Arizona and a victim of anger of the road whose avatar of ia delivered a brief and, I must admit, transferring the speech to a judge who was considering the sentence of the man who, according to the rulla, killed him.

It is a terrible and sad case, and in the video, Christopher Pelkey seems to offer forgiveness and even some humor. It is not a perfect representation. The voice sometimes sounds robotics, and the video is a bit rigid, but the general effect is everything.

You cannot avoid the tragedy of the judicial case, but the decision of the Pelkey family to give life as an avatar generated by AI is problematic. While Pelkey seems to be delivering the passionate words, they are actually written by their sister. I guess she knew her brother well, but I doubt that she could know exactly what he would have said in case of her death.

There is no stopping this now

This slippery pending on which we stop is falling apart under our feet, and we are about to slide in a very strange and strange valley. It seems that this technology was used in a court of justice and was carried out without, the assistance of a large corporation or significant funds, it means that more and more people will consider not only trying to bring dead relatives to digital life, but also allow interactions in the real world and, sometimes, important for them.

Pelkey's appearance is an extreme case, for now, but it probably will not be an atypical. I hope others begin to put lost relatives who work as Avatars of AI in all types of cases, from collective demands to civil divorce procedures.

I am sure that many family members will think they are acting in their best interest when they resurrect it digitally. Just this week, we saw the family of the legendary station of the NBA Jim Fagan, the recreation of his voice for future NBA games (mostly promotions and not, apparently, any game per game). I am sure that an AI Fagan is not far away.

However, Pelkey was not a celebrity, and companies will probably arise to help anyone digital grandmother revive, a brother, sister, aunt June, anyone who has lost and missed desperately.

No simply

I understand the intention and, to be honest, I don't know if I would reject the opportunity to “bring back a loved one.” Of course, you are not bringing anyone back. The Avatar of AI will only see and sound like the deceased, although I suppose it could go beyond that.

Last year, I wrote about Silicon Intelligence, a Chinese company that wants to use photos and videos to build a digital person who can even respond so that the original and living relative could have done.

The necessary technology to make totally functional digital replicas of anyone who lives or dead is here now, so I am encouraging everyone to publicly declare whether or not they approve this or not for their body presence.

I understand that with the hours and hours of videos and thousands of photos available online that represent me of technology, I am an easy goal for this. It is possible that my family is not interested in resuscitating myself, but I am worried that any entrepreneurial techy can build its own Ulanoff Lance and then spend hours mocking all the times that the real Lance Uleoff was wrong.

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