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Ghosts in the Cloud: Digital Afterlives and Life-Meaning in the Age of AI
Ghosts in the Cloud: Digital Afterlives and Life-Meaning in the Age of AI
Carl Oman , Wenxin Fu Fu Wenxin 译
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If there's a next life, it will only happen in the cloud!
Will there soon be more dead people than living people on Facebook? Can AI be used to talk to deceased loved ones?
This isn't science fiction; it's a global phenomenon happening right now!
Should we delete deceased individuals from the internet? Can data from the dead be profited from? Who should own digital legacies?
When "presence lives on" is no longer just an adjective, human society has an obligation to respond
────before the souls clog up the servers
Carl Öhman, a Swedish thinker, reflects on life, death, and technological ethics in the cloud era.
Once a person passes away, what happens to the digital personal data we leave in the cloud? In the second decade of the 21st century, for most people, many things in their lives happen extensively online. But you and I might not know that these digital legacies will take on a new life after we die. Our consumption, our preferences, the memories we use to commemorate life's moments, texts and sounds, photos and videos, all remain on the internet, awaiting further processing. This book seeks to explore an increasingly urgent question: how should we deal with these digital traces? Should we try to destroy them as much as possible, or try to reconstruct and reuse them? And "who" has the right to decide?
This is not just a matter for individuals and the families of the deceased, but concerns every society and human civilization. Over the next thirty years, more than two billion deceased users will join the ranks of cloud-dwelling souls. We and our descendants will be the first digital citizens on Earth, and our lives will revolve around inherited "digital legacies." Whoever controls these digital files will undoubtedly bring about huge political, economic, and social impacts. How to deal with digital legacies has thus become a topic closely related to everyone.
Cloud Souls is a forward-thinking guide that leads readers to understand the importance of online personal data and digital legacies, re-examine the relationship between the living and the dead, and regain control over the past, present, and future before all digital legacies are irresponsibly monopolized and profited from.
Will there soon be more dead people than living people on Facebook? Can AI be used to talk to deceased loved ones?
This isn't science fiction; it's a global phenomenon happening right now!
Should we delete deceased individuals from the internet? Can data from the dead be profited from? Who should own digital legacies?
When "presence lives on" is no longer just an adjective, human society has an obligation to respond
────before the souls clog up the servers
Carl Öhman, a Swedish thinker, reflects on life, death, and technological ethics in the cloud era.
Once a person passes away, what happens to the digital personal data we leave in the cloud? In the second decade of the 21st century, for most people, many things in their lives happen extensively online. But you and I might not know that these digital legacies will take on a new life after we die. Our consumption, our preferences, the memories we use to commemorate life's moments, texts and sounds, photos and videos, all remain on the internet, awaiting further processing. This book seeks to explore an increasingly urgent question: how should we deal with these digital traces? Should we try to destroy them as much as possible, or try to reconstruct and reuse them? And "who" has the right to decide?
This is not just a matter for individuals and the families of the deceased, but concerns every society and human civilization. Over the next thirty years, more than two billion deceased users will join the ranks of cloud-dwelling souls. We and our descendants will be the first digital citizens on Earth, and our lives will revolve around inherited "digital legacies." Whoever controls these digital files will undoubtedly bring about huge political, economic, and social impacts. How to deal with digital legacies has thus become a topic closely related to everyone.
Cloud Souls is a forward-thinking guide that leads readers to understand the importance of online personal data and digital legacies, re-examine the relationship between the living and the dead, and regain control over the past, present, and future before all digital legacies are irresponsibly monopolized and profited from.
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