NYC PREMIERE When the AI tool Project December opened to the public, writer Joshua Barbeau pursued a bold and morally questionable goal: using the application to “speak” with his fiancee who had died 8 years before. The success of this morbid experiment attracted a rush of other users who hoped to imbue their deceased loved ones with a sort of immortality in the digital realm. As the proliferation of AI models and sophisticated avatar programs forges onward, tech leaders, programmers, psychologists and everyday consumers confront the ethical concerns of this revolutionary technology. - Brandon Harrison
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