What Are The Ethical Boundaries Of Digital Life Forever?

Today artificial intelligence (AI) driven digital technologies are giving us new pathways to always have your loved ones with you, 7x24. Not really, despite the eeriness from Black Mirror episodes, or Carrie Fisher digitally created to carry on as Princess Leia in Star Wars, and Microsoft securing a patent for software that could reincarnate people as a chat bot, opening the door to more uses of AI contemplating how to bring the dead back to life are rapidly accelerating. Are we ready for death resurrections? Is this the right thing for us to be doing? From my research, we don't have all the answers to this complex question yet, but what we have are many innovators, academics, researchers shaping the answer to this question that will enable richer immersive digital learning experiences – and others that bringing grandma back to life – and persisting forever – may feel positively therapeutic to ease a deep grief, or feel like you are immersed in a Stephen King movie.