AI and the Afterlife
Authors: 
Jed R. Brubaker, 
Meredith Ringel Morris, 
Dylan Thomas Doyle, 
Casey Fiesler, 
Martin Gibbs, Joanna McGrenereAuthors Info & Claims
Article No.: 458, Pages 1 - 5
Abstract
AI technologies are likely to impact an array of existing practices (and give rise to a host of novel ones) around end-of-life planning, remembrance, and legacy in ways that will have profound legal, economic, emotional, and religious ramifications. At this critical moment of technological change, there is an opportunity for the HCI community to shape the discourse on this important topic through value-sensitive and community-centered approaches. This workshop will bring together a broad group of academics and practitioners with varied perspectives including HCI, AI, and other relevant disciplines (e.g., law, economics, religious studies, etc.) to support community-building, agenda-setting, and prototyping activities among scholars and practitioners interested in the nascent topic of how advances in AI will change socio-technical practices around death, remembrance, and legacy.
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