AI and death: Sundance films grapple with digital afterlife

PARK CITY, Utah: Artificial intelligence promises to make death «optional» as the technology learns to perfectly emulate our personalities, memories and dreams, keeping a version of ourselves alive long after our physical bodies have perished.

But if rapidly improving AI achieves its lofty goal of digital immortality — as its advocates believe it can — will it be a force for good or for evil?

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