[ExI] How to keep working after you are dead

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AI 'deadbots' are persuasive — and researchers say they're primed for
monetization
August 26, 2025 by Chloe Veltman

<https://www.npr.org/2025/08/26/nx-s1-5508355/ai-dead-people-chatbots-videos-parkland-court>
Quotes:
AI avatars of deceased people — or "deadbots" — are showing up in new
and unexpected contexts, including ones where they have the power to
persuade.
The digital afterlife industry, which manages a person's digital
assets after their death, is expected to quadruple in size to nearly
$80 billion over the next decade. That includes the creation of
deadbots. The more immersive these bots become, the more technology
companies are exploring their commercial potential, causing concern in
the research community and elsewhere.
Researchers are now warning that commercial use is the next frontier
for deadbots. "Of course it will be monetized," said Lindenwood
University AI researcher James Hutson. Hutson co-authored several
studies about deadbots, including one exploring the ethics of using AI
to reanimate the dead.
Before deadbot advertising can take off, there are legal kinks to work
out. "In America, we're struggling with the privacy rights of the
living, let alone the privacy rights of the deceased," said Jeffrey
Rosenthal, an attorney in Philadelphia specializing in technology and
privacy with the law firm Blank Rome LLP.
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I wonder if cryonic suspended people will have an AI deadbot working
on their behalf? The AI could be accumulating money and resources in
its estate and accumulating knowledge and experience, ready to be
merged with the revived cryonics patient.
It will probably require the AIs to be improved at least to
human-level ability, but wonders like this will become more likely as
AI progresses.
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