I am creating several scenarios for the sessions I faciliate. I would love to run this one here!
IMAGINE: In 2125, AI and robotics have advanced to create perfect android replicas of deceased loved ones. These replicas not only look and sound like the original person but also behave, emote, and adapt with startling realism, drawing from extensive digital and personal archives. Families embrace them for comfort, while others view them as unsettling echoes of the past. Society is divided on whether these androids are a gift of connection or a distortion of human life.
If you had the chance to bring back a loved one as an AI, would you?
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.