2 papers
cs.HC2026
Designing Conversations with the Dead: How People Engage with Generative Ghosts
Jack Manning, Daniel Sullivan, Dylan Thomas Doyle +2
We examine how people experience two choices in the design of generative ghosts, AI systems that are trained on data of the dead: representation, where an AI speaks about a decease…
cs.CY2024
Generative Ghosts: Anticipating Benefits and Risks of AI Afterlives
Meredith Ringel Morris, Jed R. Brubaker
As AI systems quickly improve in both breadth and depth of performance, they lend themselves to creating increasingly powerful and realistic agents, including the possibility of ag…