DIGITAL IMMORTALITY
Your Great-Grandchildren will have Conversations with Your Clone
Eternime, Replika, and Microsoft already create chatbots from deceased people’s digital footprints. Your 50,000+ social media posts, voice memos, and photos train Computational Intelligence versions that mimic and replicate your personality.
Death becomes optional – but who controls your digital ghost?
Would you want to live forever digitally?
The Uncanny Future of “You” After You’re Gone
Picture your great-granddaughter, decades from now, curling up with a hologram of you — asking about your first heartbreak, hearing your laugh, debating politics with your wit and cadence. It’s not fantasy. Startups like Eternime and tech giants like Microsoft are already building this: Digital clones trained on your texts, voice notes, and social media posts (yes, even those cringe tweets from 2012). Your digital ghost learns, adapts, and outlives you — but at what cost?
Death used to be the great equalizer
Not anymore. These AI replicas raise terrifying questions: Who inherits control of your clone? Can your avatar be hacked or manipulated? Will future generations resent being haunted by algorithmic ancestors? And what happens when corporations monetize your consciousness — turning “Grandpa AI” into a subscription service?
Yet the pull is undeniable. For grievers, it’s a lifeline; for narcissists, a paradise. But strip away the sci-fi sheen, and you’re left with a brutal irony: We’re desperate to be remembered, even as we drown in disposable digital noise. Your 50,000+ posts might immortalize you, but will they really be you?
So — would you sign over your soul to the cloud?
Or is mortality the last sacred thing we have left?
