Futurology

No.

That's not "bringing back the dead", obviously. It's sadly curling up with a chat bot and pretending it's a person you deeply miss. That's fucking bleak.

Oh hell no

If you had a chance to bring back a loved one as an AI, would you?

No, because it wouldn't be my "loved one". It'd be a facsimile that inherently falls short of being a copy, and would not be alive.

No thank you. That's weird and emotionally manipulative.

No. Should AI be run out on a rail yes.

I feel like that would be upsetting for most people. A loved one dies, you grieve, then they come back as a close approximation of themselves and act as a regular reminder that they died?

I struggle to see why anyone who isn't actively grieving would want this.

Until we can upload our brains to a computer, you're not getting anything close to the real person. No memories, no lived experiences, no secrets that affect how they act. You get a chatbot that is trained on the most shallow of data on a person. Cool, grandpa's personality....kinda...

I would say no.

Replacing someone with a digital version of themselves just means the original is forgotten and replaced. They are still dead and gone but the people interacting with the AI can pretend they aren't.

Unless you can actually upload their consciousness into a digital avatar, I would say it's more of a benefit to the people still living and a disservice to the dead.

Yes and no, it depends how we used it.
If it's used in good ways such as helping our grandma or grandpa who missed their dead family, I supported it.
But if it's used in bad ways such as scamming someone or luring someone, that's a big NO for me

Necromancer series covers this. If you haven't read it it's worth your time