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Digital immortality: On new forms of care, responsibility, and empathy in the age of AI

This event in the Intellectual Forum's "Death and Dying" lecture series will consider how the advent of new technologies is changing how we experience death, dying, and immortality.

  • 25th October 2024 - 25th October 2024
  • 5:30 pm - 6:45 pm

We have entered an era where our digital immortality is almost as inevitable as our death.

Though digital immortality-related technologies have existed since the 1990s, with the growing amount of data and the advent of new technologies—especially the recent emergence of large language models—the way we experience death, dying, and immortality is changing significantly.

With these changes have come ethical, cultural, philosophical, political, and even environmental challenges and risks. How can we plan for this new aspect of death?

In this lecture at the Intellectual Forum, Dr Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basinska will trace the digital afterlife industry’s shift from niche digital-immortality-related experiments to the fully independent commercial market, considering how we might develop this rapidly emerging industry in a culturally-sensitive, responsible way.

Facilities

  • Disabled Accessibility
  • Facilities for Disabled Guests
  • wheelchair access

Accessibility Facilities

  • Designated wheelchair public toilet
  • Induction loops
  • Mostly flat terrain
  • Wheel chair accessible
  • Wheelchair accessible
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Did you know?

In 1958, a group of engineering students managed to hoist an Austin Seven car onto the roof of Senate House, with the help of some clever calculations. It took the university a week to remove it – and will surely go down in history as one of the boldest student pranks ever!