The Weekend Intelligence: Digital Ghosts
Economist Podcasts27 Tammi 2024

The Weekend Intelligence: Digital Ghosts

As life moves progressively online, it is becoming increasingly possible to keep people alive in the digital sense. Tech companies are starting to use AI to simulate the personalities of the dead from the data they’ve left behind. The Economist’s science correspondent, Abby Bertics, wanted to figure out how close this possible future is and just what it would look like to conjure a digital ghost of her own.


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