Legal Scholar Advocates for Right to Delete Digital Data After Death to Prevent AI Resurrection
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Legal scholar Victoria Haneman argues that US law should grant a deceased person's estate the right to delete their digital data to prevent unwanted AI-driven digital resurrection. She highlights concerns about generative AI recreating a person's digital presence without consent, emphasizing the need for legal protections against the exploitation of digital remains.
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The emergence of generative AI means a person's digital presence can be recreated and revived, even if they or their family don't want that kind of memorial.
Haneman argues US law should give a dead person's estate a limited right to digital deletion as a defense against the exploitation of digital remains.
: Not everyone wants to be simulated after they're gone
