A framework examining how informed consent functions when creating AI personalities of deceased individuals who cannot approve their own digital resurrection.
Rabia's ethics centered on pure voluntary devotion—never coerced, always chosen. This becomes critical for digital immortality: can we ethically create AI-preserved personalities of the dead without their explicit prior consent? Unlike living individuals who might volunteer their digital immortality, deceased persons cannot authorize their own preservation. Rabia's emphasis on authentic will-choosing suggests several possibilities: seeking advance directives about digital preservation; granting decision-making power to those the person loved most; creating preserves only for those who actively planned their own digital legacy; or establishing presumptions against preservation unless explicitly requested. The framework honors both the autonomy of the deceased and the legitimate desire of the living to maintain connection. It rejects the notion that preservation itself honors a person if it violates what we know of their values or desires regarding autonomy and rest.
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