Digital Death and Immortality

数字死亡与永生

• 批准号: DP240100432
• 负责人: A/Prof Patrick Stokes
• 金额: $ 6.44万
• 依托单位: Deakin University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2026-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP240100432
• 关键词: Digital; Death; Immortality

This project will create a philosophically-informed ethical approach for managing the 'digital remains' of internet users who have died. Emerging artificial intelligence technologies make it possible to reuse and interact with these digital remains. This offers new ways of commemorating the dead and for managing grief. Yet these technologies also threaten to exploit the dead and to change our relationship to them in troubling ways. Expected outcomes of the project include guidance for the ethical use of these technologies and policy recommendations for regulating the reuse of digital remains. This will provide significant benefits by helping Australia to avoid the ethical dangers inherent in emerging technologies of 'digital reanimation.'

该项目将创建一种哲学上知名的道德方法，用于管理死亡的互联网用户的“数字遗骸”。新兴的人工智能技术使重复使用并与这些数字遗骸互动成为可能。这提供了纪念死者和管理悲伤的新方法。然而，这些技术也威胁要利用死者，并以令人不安的方式改变我们与他们的关系。该项目的预期结果包括有关这些技术道德使用的指导和政策建议，以规范数字遗骸的再利用。这将通过帮助澳大利亚避免“数字复活”的新兴技术固有的道德危险来提供重大的好处。