Speculative design, futuring, and immersive “thought experiences” are ways we foretell the evolution of our (im)mortality, meaning-making, and memorialization.
Marlynn Wei, MD, JD
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Elixir: Digital Immortality has explored user reactions to personal AI clones since 2019.
The expansion of digital immortality and the popularization of AI clones raises a range of psychological, philosophical, ethical, and legal issues.
Griefbots and Elixir, discussed in the Philosophy and Technology article.
Metaphors significantly influence how we conceptualize AI agents and our empathy levels toward AI.
Read the essay about our empathy for AI by Marlynn Wei on Psychology Today.
People will collaborate with an AI system if it is able to provide suggestions when people most need it.
Read the essay about human-AI collaboration and empathic design by Marlynn Wei on UX Magazine.
AI is testing better than humans on theory of mind, so will it anticipate our own needs earlier than we can?
Read the latest research on AI theory of mind by Marlynn Wei on Psychology Today.
Lectures and Presentations
For now, even with all the time we spend online, very few—if any— of people’s favorite memories are virtual ones.
- Marlynn Wei, on Empathy in the Metaverse