digital ghost

noun

Definitions

  1. A digital avatar of a deceased person, such as a deathbot.

    • “If I die and my children access my email account and reanimate me … for me, personally, that’s a horrific prospect,” says Professor Robert Sparrow of Monash University, who has written about the ethics of digital ghosts.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for digital ghost. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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