Academic Article (21)
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- New York Times
- 2018
Youtube’s algorithm suggests increasingly radical recommendations to its users, maximising the amount of time they spend on the platform. The tendency toward inflammatory recommendations often leads to political misinformation.
- New York Times
- 2018
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- 7 min
- New York Times
- 2018
Youtube, The Great Radicalizer
Youtube’s algorithm suggests increasingly radical recommendations to its users, maximising the amount of time they spend on the platform. The tendency toward inflammatory recommendations often leads to political misinformation.
What are the dangers of being offered increasingly radical videos on Youtube?
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- 45 min
- The Interational Journal of Psychoanalysis
- 2024
Because the technology simulates sentience, it removes the ethical imperative of considering the deceased as an irreducible other, fostering attachments that may displace living relationships and misrepresent the dead. While the author concedes that tightly regulated, consent-based applications (e.g., helping a child imagine a deceased parent) might offer therapeutic value, the prevailing danger is that griefbots short-circuit the lifelong, relational work of mourning. Psychoanalysis, the article concludes, must scrutinize these “post-human” tools to preserve an ethics of otherness in a culture increasingly tempted to outsource grief to machines.
- The Interational Journal of Psychoanalysis
- 2024
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- 45 min
- The Interational Journal of Psychoanalysis
- 2024
Mourning, melancholia and machines: An applied psychoanalytic investigation of mourning in the age of griefbots
Because the technology simulates sentience, it removes the ethical imperative of considering the deceased as an irreducible other, fostering attachments that may displace living relationships and misrepresent the dead. While the author concedes that tightly regulated, consent-based applications (e.g., helping a child imagine a deceased parent) might offer therapeutic value, the prevailing danger is that griefbots short-circuit the lifelong, relational work of mourning. Psychoanalysis, the article concludes, must scrutinize these “post-human” tools to preserve an ethics of otherness in a culture increasingly tempted to outsource grief to machines.
- What is the danger of turning mourning into a private, self-regulated loop through the use of a grief bot?
- What are the benefits or harms of disconnecting from a deceased loved one during the grieving process, and why might that be lost through the use of grief bots?
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- 90 min
- Minds and Machines
- 2017
The authors define DAI as the ecosystem of commercial platforms—ranging from startups like Afternote and Departing.com to tech giants like Facebook and Google—that commodify and manage digital remains (online data, profiles, memories) of deceased users. Using four real-world cases, the author discusses how economic incentives can distort the “informational body” – rewriting profiles, automating posts, and reshaping digital personas.
- Minds and Machines
- 2017
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- 90 min
- Minds and Machines
- 2017
The Political Economy of Death in the Age of Information
The authors define DAI as the ecosystem of commercial platforms—ranging from startups like Afternote and Departing.com to tech giants like Facebook and Google—that commodify and manage digital remains (online data, profiles, memories) of deceased users. Using four real-world cases, the author discusses how economic incentives can distort the “informational body” – rewriting profiles, automating posts, and reshaping digital personas.
- Should the digital remains of a deceased person be editable by family, friends, or the company hosting the digital immortal?
- Do tech companies have an ethical duty to preserve or remove digital remains?
- How are digital remains companies similar or different to funeral homes and cemeteries in the physical world? What laws govern these types of businesses and should they be applied to digital memorial companies?
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- 30 min
- Lindenwood University
- 2023
Through analyses of contemporary media, including films, television, and digital art, the paper explores how society grapples with the boundaries between life and death in the digital age. It discusses the implications of using AI to preserve or revive aspects of human identity, considering both the potential benefits for memory and mourning and the risks of commodifying or misrepresenting the deceased.
- Lindenwood University
- 2023
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- 30 min
- Lindenwood University
- 2023
Life, Death, and AI: Exploring Digital Necromancy in Popular Culture
Through analyses of contemporary media, including films, television, and digital art, the paper explores how society grapples with the boundaries between life and death in the digital age. It discusses the implications of using AI to preserve or revive aspects of human identity, considering both the potential benefits for memory and mourning and the risks of commodifying or misrepresenting the deceased.
- Discuss the pet cemetery conundrum (the reanimated versions of pets, and later humans, that are wrong and uncanny).
- What are the ways that someone could shape the digital representation of a loved one that was inconsistent with the real person? Would this be an ethical action if it helped a grieving process?
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- Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference
- 2024
Provides an empirical analysis of content moderation practices across major social media platforms within the European Union (EU), utilizing data from the Digital Services Act (DSA) Transparency Database.
- Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference
- 2024
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- Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference
- 2024
Content Moderation on Social Media in the EU
Provides an empirical analysis of content moderation practices across major social media platforms within the European Union (EU), utilizing data from the Digital Services Act (DSA) Transparency Database.
- What is the distinction between the moderation of content and censorship?
- How would you define effective content moderation? What has shaped your views on this over the last five years?
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- 125 min
- International Journal of Law and Information Technology
- 2021
Argues that the posthumous digital presence of individuals—such as AI-generated simulations, voice clones, and griefbots—deserves legal and ethical protections, even after a person has died. The author proposes the concept of “digital souls” to encapsulate the idea that a person’s data, personality emulations, and AI-generated likenesses should be treated with dignity and moral consideration, not just as property or public content.
- International Journal of Law and Information Technology
- 2021
Digital Remains: Property or Privacy?
Argues that the posthumous digital presence of individuals—such as AI-generated simulations, voice clones, and griefbots—deserves legal and ethical protections, even after a person has died. The author proposes the concept of “digital souls” to encapsulate the idea that a person’s data, personality emulations, and AI-generated likenesses should be treated with dignity and moral consideration, not just as property or public content.
- Discuss the posthumous data rights in different regions as covered in this paper.
- Brainstorm possible regulations to combat some of the issues raised in the article and create a policy to address one of them based on similar policies found in the physical world.