Solutions with Henry Blodget
Solutions with Henry Blodget
Vox Media Podcast Network
We Can Live Forever Through Digital Twins. But Should We?
43 minutes Posted Mar 23, 2026 at 8:00 am.
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What’s it like to talk to a “digital twin” of a relative who died before you were born? How will the increasingly lifelike digital representations of people change how we grieve?
Amy Kurzweil deeply considers these questions in her graphic memoir, Artificial: A Love Story. It's about her experience helping to create a chatbot based on her grandfather. Amy’s father, Ray Kurzweil — a technology inventor and futurist — built the bot back in 2018. In this episode, we discuss how AI could change how we grieve, and complicate the very meaning of consciousness.
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