Lifestreams: a storage model for personal data
ACM SIGMOD Record
Emergent values for automatons: Ethical problems of life in the generalized Internet
Ethics and Information Technology
MyLifeBits: fulfilling the Memex vision
Proceedings of the tenth ACM international conference on Multimedia
Massive questionnaires for personality capture
Social Science Computer Review
ETP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMM workshop on Experiential telepresence
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
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You can survive after death in various kinds of artifacts. You can survive in diaries, photographs, sound recordings, and movies. But these artifacts record only superficial features of yourself. We are already close to the construction of programs that partially and approximately replicate entire human lives (by storing their memories and duplicating their personalities). A digital ghost is an artificially intelligent program that knows all about your life. It is an animated auto-biography. It replicates your patterns of belief and desire. You can survive after death in a digital ghost. We discuss a series of digital ghosts over the next 50 years. As time goes by and technology advances, they are progressively more perfect replicas of the lives of their original authors.