By Futurist Thomas Frey
By 2040, death has become negotiable. Not biologically—but digitally. AI systems can now reconstruct astonishingly lifelike, interactive versions of deceased people using their online footprints—social media posts, voice recordings, photos, emails, and texts. These digital resurrections don’t just mimic personality; they evolve, learning and responding in ways that make them eerily indistinguishable from the living. The dead no longer vanish—they linger in data form, conversing, advising, comforting, or haunting those left behind. But this technological miracle has unleashed one of the most explosive ethical and legal crises in human history: who owns the right to resurrect the dead?
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