Samuel Iglesias

Digital Doppelgängers and Lifespan Extension: What Matters?

The American Journal of Bioethics November 14, 2024 Samuel Iglesias, Brian D. Earp, Cristina Voinea et al.

There is an ongoing debate about the ethics of research on lifespan extension: roughly, using medical technologies to extend biological human lives beyond the current "natural" limit of about 120 years. At the same time, there is an exploding interest in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to create "digital twins" of persons, for example by fine-tuning large language models on data...