As the last Holocaust survivors approach the end of their lives, an AI scholar grapples with technology that promises to freeze them in time.
In this week’s new Longreads essay, Benjamin Charles Germain Lee grapples with technology that speaks with the dead.
Over many decades, my grandmother gave responses to thousands of questions, wrote tens of thousands of words, and spoke for hours and hours while tapes rolled. She would be, in other words, the perfect candidate for AI reanimation.
But should we reanimate the dead?
Read Lee’s thought-provoking piece, “Uncanny Testimony,” on Longreads.
