‘The Ethics of Personalised Digital Duplicates: A Minimally Viable Permissibility Principle’

It’s now possible, with the right set of training data, for anyone to create a digital copy of anyone. Some people have already done this as part of research projects, and employers are proposing to do it for employees. What are the ethics of this practice? Should you ever consent to having a digital copy made? What are the benefits and harms of doing so? In a new paper with Sven Nyholm, we propose a minimally viable permissibility principle for the creation and use of digital duplicates … (more)

[John Danaher, Philosophical Disquisitions, 15 July 2024]

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