How to Die in the Age of AI
Summary
Read the ArticleIn a first-person essay for Maclean’s, Flybits founder Hossein Rahnama traces a decade of Augmented Eternity — his research into whether a person’s digital records can carry their knowledge and perspective forward after they die — and explains why that work on grief still belongs in the lab rather than on the market. Along the way he describes a shift from avatars that imitate a person to what he calls HCI²: humane, calm and intelligent interfaces that surface a relevant memory, offer context, then stop, leaving the decision with the human. He argues that “the harder problem is making it unlearn,” that every agent needs a kill switch and an eject button, and that the real promise of the technology is not immortality but keeping a lifetime of expertise useful for the generations that follow.
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