AI for Death and Dying

by Maggi Savin-Baden

Overview

What is artificial intelligence (AI)? How does AI affect death matters and the digital beyond? How are death and dying handled in our digital age?

AI for Dying and Death covers a broad range of literature, research and challenges around this topic. It explores ethical memorisation, digital legacies and bereavement, post death avatars and AI and the digital beyond. It also analyzes religious perspectives on AI for death and dying, and planning for death in a digital age. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367613174
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	08/27/2021
Series:	AI for Everything
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x (d)

About the Author

Maggi Savin-Baden is Professor of Education at the University of Worcester and has researched and evaluated staff and student experience of learning for over 20 years and gained funding in this area (Leverhulme Trust, JISC, Higher Education Academy, MoD). She has a strong publication record of over 50 research publications and 17 books which reflect her research interests on the impact of innovative learning, digital fluency, cyber-influence, pedagogical agents, qualitative research methods, and problem-based learning. In her spare time, she runs, bakes, climbs and attempts triathlons

Table of Contents

List of Figures xi

List of Tables xiii

Permissions xv

Acknowledgements xvii

Author xix

Introduction 1

1 What Is Artificial Intelligence? 5

2 Death and Dying in the Digital Age 27

3 Ethical Memorialization 47

4 Digital Legacy Management 67

5 Religious Perspectives 91

6 Digital Bereavement 111

7 Digital Afterlife, Digital Immortal Creation and Artificial Intelligence 135

8 Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Beyond 155

References 175

Index 193