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How to handle creating an AI version of someone with dementia without their explicit consent

My wife's dementia is getting worse and I've been secretly recording our conversations to train an AI version of her from before she got sick, but I don't know if she would have consented to this.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Progressive cognitive decline creates ethical dilemmas around consent for digital preservation when the person who could consent is disappearing.

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

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