Joe Allen

If you look at the direction that the technology is going right now, as these systems are normalized in the population, as they're used to surveil people, not just outwardly, but inwardly, as they're used to entice people to give over their deepest secrets, their deepest fears, their deepest desires, as those fears and desires are then used to manipulate the population,

And perhaps most alarmingly, as these systems are used as a kind of ape of the image of God, these systems are used to hoover up the data of each person under surveillance and to replicate them as digital twins, I think that some of the more nightmarish scenarios are not far ahead of us.

For instance, if you take all of the data that a frequent or constant digital device user is pushing into Google, Amazon, the cloud that hovers over our head like some sort of demonic presence,

And if you use that to train an artificial intelligence system, you can replicate that person.

We know this as voice cloning scams.

We know this as deep fakes to take the image of a person, the voice of a person, perhaps even the personality of a person and imitate them, to ape them, the ape of the image of God.

Well, there are many people who want this kind of future.

There are many people who want this sort of use case.

They want it not just to get one over on their fellow citizens.

They want it in order to attain some kind of immortality.

A good example of this would be Martin Rothblatt, whose religious system, Terrasim, is dedicated to a process called mind cloning, in which one pours all of their inner thoughts and feelings into a digital system with the hopes that with sufficiently advanced artificial intelligence technology, you could, quote, resurrect them and keep them immortal, basically in a computer.

Now,

I think that metaphysically and just practically, this seems like a ridiculous idea, but again, that doesn't mean that many won't adopt it.

For example, Callum Worthy, the former Disney child star, has just launched 2WAI.

The purpose, he says, is to archive people's lives for the grieving families who lose their loved ones.

In essence, this ends up being a form of e-necromancy.

In essence, this is the resurrection of the digital undead.

And if Denver could just roll this clip, think of it as a kind of anti-advertisement for a future ruled by digital zombies.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the dawn of the digital undead.

Now, as freakish as that might seem, you have to understand it's just the culmination of the integration of technology into our lives so that any one of us who has poured our inner thoughts into emails, into text messages, into search queries, into conversations with AI could be reconstructed into a kind of empty, soulless, digital wraith