Conversation from Beyond the Grave? A Neo‐Confucian Ethics of Chatbots of the Dead.
Digital records, from chat transcripts to social media posts, are being used to create chatbots that recreate the conversational style of deceased individuals. Some maintain that this is merely a new form of digital memorial, while others argue that they pose a variety of moral hazards. To resolve t...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 73 - 89 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2020
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