Project Infinite Life

Most of what a person knows, how they talk and what they have learned disappears when they die. Project Infinite Life is an AI avatar and chatbot tool that lets you create a digital version of yourself, so family and friends can interact with it after you are gone.

The avatar is dynamic and evolves over time rather than staying fixed at one moment.

Access is meant to be secure and private, limited to the relatives and friends you choose.

The catch is that everything depends on how well the AI captures your personality, and that is hard to judge in advance.

Handing over personal data raises privacy questions, and the cost of creating and maintaining the avatar may matter too.

There is also an emotional side: talking with a digital stand-in for someone who has died will feel very different from one person to the next.