Digital duplicates are AI built representations of people, trained on personal texts, images, and choices so they can speak, decide, and create in ways that resemble real persons. The Digital Duplicates Workshop brought together researchers across philosophy, bioethics and tech to ask what these new technologies mean in real life.
Topics included griefbots and memorialization, prediction of preferences in intensive care, decision aids for dementia patients, authorship and accountability, avatars in democratic life, the moral status of duplicates, and questions of agency, identity, and responsibility.
Contributors came from the National University of Singapore, University of Bucharest, Duke University, Duke Kunshan University, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Bentley University, University of Oxford, University of Aberdeen, University of California Riverside, University of Twente, and Delft University of Technology.
The workshop was co-sponsored by the European Union ERC avataResponsibility (project no. 101117761) and by the EARP Lab through Experimental Bioethics and Relational Moral Psychology NUS Startup Grant.
