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Fargo, ND 58102-4704
United States
Fargo Think & Drink
The Ethics of AI Death Bots
Sunday, January 26, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (CST)
Sons of Norway
722 2nd Avenue NorthFargo, ND 58102-4704
United States
Event Details
Fargo Think & Drink: The Ethics of AI Death Bots
Featuring Dr. Dennis Cooley
Provided by Humanities North Dakota
Featuring Dr. Dennis Cooley
Provided by Humanities North Dakota
Sunday, Jan 26, 2025
4-5 pm CT
Sons of Norway Troll Lounge, Fargo ND
4-5 pm CT
Sons of Norway Troll Lounge, Fargo ND
Think & Drink events are a great alternative to your usual coffee catch-up with friends or even an interesting date idea! We’ll start with a presentation from our speaker and then you’ll have the chance to join in on discussions at your table, sharing thoughts and ideas with others.
Each ticket includes one complimentary drink.
TOPIC:
Unbeknownst to her father, a woman murdered by her boyfriend 18 years ago suddenly appeared as an AI ghostbot. Ghostbots are AI representations using the deceased’s image, voice, and other data to simulate the deceased’s ante-mortem appearance. No one disagrees that the best AI ghostbots could eventually be sufficiently like the source person to deceive even those individuals who had deep relationships with the deceased. The disagreement is whether we should be creating ghostbots.
Unbeknownst to her father, a woman murdered by her boyfriend 18 years ago suddenly appeared as an AI ghostbot. Ghostbots are AI representations using the deceased’s image, voice, and other data to simulate the deceased’s ante-mortem appearance. No one disagrees that the best AI ghostbots could eventually be sufficiently like the source person to deceive even those individuals who had deep relationships with the deceased. The disagreement is whether we should be creating ghostbots.
SPEAKER BIO:
Dennis Cooley received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Rochester in 1995. His teaching and research interests include theoretical and applied ethics with a focus on pragmatism, bioethics, business ethics, personhood, and death and dying. He is the author of Technology, Transgenics, and a Practical Moral Code, Death’s Values and Obligations: A Pragmatic Framework, and co-edited Passing/Out: Identity Veiled and Revealed. He is Secretary General of the International Academy of Medical Ethics and Public Health; Editor of Springer’s International Library of Bioethics; Associate Editor of Elsevier’s Ethics, Medicine and Public Health; and Director of the Northern Plains Ethics Institute.
Dennis Cooley received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Rochester in 1995. His teaching and research interests include theoretical and applied ethics with a focus on pragmatism, bioethics, business ethics, personhood, and death and dying. He is the author of Technology, Transgenics, and a Practical Moral Code, Death’s Values and Obligations: A Pragmatic Framework, and co-edited Passing/Out: Identity Veiled and Revealed. He is Secretary General of the International Academy of Medical Ethics and Public Health; Editor of Springer’s International Library of Bioethics; Associate Editor of Elsevier’s Ethics, Medicine and Public Health; and Director of the Northern Plains Ethics Institute.