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When digital preservation would immortalize parts of your past you want to die with you

I'm 92 and my great-grandson wants to preserve my memories in AI before I die, but I have secrets and shame from my past that I don't want preserved forever for future generations to discover.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Digital immortality eliminates the natural forgetting that death provides, forcing individuals to confront whether some aspects of life should remain buried.

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“Where Are You with AI-preserved personalities and digital immortality ethics?”

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