Monday, October 4, 2010

Gmail user gives Google permission to recreate his mind after death

A Gmail user and computer scientist going by the name of Giulio Prisco has decided to give Google permission to recreate his mind after he dies.
Giulio believes this is possible based on advancements in technology and software over the next 50 years, combined with the terabytes of data Google will have collected about him by then. Giulio also assumes he will be dead by 2060.
He does make the following assumptions about the state of technology and Gmail accounts in 50 years time. They include:
The data in the accounts of all Gmail users since 2004 is available.
AI-based mindware technology able to reconstruct individual mindfiles by analyzing the information in their aggregate Gmail accounts and other available information, with sufficient accuracy for mind uploading via detailed personality reconstruction, is available.
The technology to crack Gmail passwords is available, but illegal without the consent of the account owners (or their heirs).
Many of today?s Gmail users, including myself, are already dead and cannot give permission to use the data in their accounts.
Giulio goes on to give Google the following permissions in his blog post with readers as his witnesses:

I hereby give permission to Google and/or other parties to read all data in my Gmail account and use them together with other available information to reconstruct my mindfile with sufficient accuracy for mind uploading via detailed personality reconstruction, and express my wish that they do so.
Signed by Giulio Prisco on September 28, 2010, and witnessed by readers.

Will you be joining Ben in offering up your mind for recreation in digital form after your death?
Read more at Giulio Prisco, via The Multiverse According To Ben
Matthew?s Opinion
Giulio?s post about this raises some interesting questions about data gathering and what happens to our online persona and data after death.
We have to assume that Gmail and Google will still be around in 2060. What we don?t know is just how much Gmail will have changed, and how much better Google has got at collecting data about us. The amount of storage allocated to such a task will certainly be in the terabytes. Combine that with an increasing amount of time spent online by individuals, coupled with the gadgets we take with us everyday becoming ever-more connected, and it?s feasible Google could know everything about you by 2060.
What you also have to consider is people who start using Gmail today and continue to do so, will have a lifetime of data stored about them on Google servers in 50 years time. Combine that with the AI-based mindware Guilio mentions and it does seem likely some form of personality could be created digitally.
A more pressing question for Gmail users is going to be what happens to my data after death? Should Google have a policy, or even options you can setup now, like a Gmail will? That way you could choose what happens, whether the data opens up more for Google to use, or whether it should be deleted forever.
Personally, if Google can recreate my mind almost perfectly by the time I die then I?d be up for reincarnation on a server. If I didn?t know any different it would be as if I never died, right?
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