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Digital ghosts: are AI replicas of the dead an innovative medical tool or an ethical nightmare?

By Jon Cornwall, Senior Lecturer and Education Adviser, University of Otago
Sabine Hildebrandt, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard University

The use of AI copies of the dead for medical training remains hypothetical, but the technology to make them exists, raising questions about what it means to be dead.

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