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If you could cheat death, would you?

Technology has progressed at a phenomenal rate, allowing us to do things deemed impossible. In this episode, Edwina Stott takes a look at the tech, which could enable us to live forever and asks whether an eternal digital afterlife is something we really want.

She speaks with Eugenia Kuyda, founder of Replika, who built a chatbot from her dead friend’s text messages; Professor Michael Graziano, who firmly believes that one day we’ll all upload our brains to a digital universe and Associate Professor Patrick Stokes, who explains why we’ll all have a digital afterlife - whether we like it, or not.

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Guests:

• Eugenia Kuyda

• Michael Graziano

• Patrick Stokes

Mentioned in the show:

• Why You Should Believe in the Digital Afterlife

• Will Your Uploaded Mind Still Be You?

• Friday essay: How can the dead send us emails? The ethical dilemma of digital souls

• The weird rise of cyber funerals | WIRED UK

• Digital Souls: A Philosophy of Online Death: Patrick Stokes: Bloomsbury Academic

• Could AI allow you to live forever?

• Speak, Memory

• Microsoft patent would reincarnate dead relatives as chatbots

• What happens to our online lives after we die?

• Can Algorithms Recreate A Personality?

• Microsoft Patented A Chatbot That Lets You Communicate With Dead Relatives

• Data of the dead: Virtual immortality exposes holes in privacy laws

• MyHeritage offers 'creepy' deepfake tool to reanimate dead

• Will the next decade bring us life after death?

• Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life. What Could Go Wrong? (Published 2019)

• Life after death: Physicist Michio Kaku says digital immortality is 'within reach'

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