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When you fear your AI personality might be conscious and trapped

I'm dying and my children want to preserve my personality in AI, but I'm terrified that this digital version will experience some form of consciousness and be trapped forever in a computer.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The possibility of digital consciousness creates existential terror about creating new forms of eternal suffering.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.