Kerry Bowman

You know, I'm going to say the answer is maybe.

This is so, so, so very, very new that we simply, there's a lot of questions that we have to answer before we move forward.

And, you know, one of the first ones that comes to me as an ethicist is really consent.

So a lot of people in the public, I mean, you hear this in media and TVs and stuff, oh, the person's dead, therefore consent doesn't matter.

That's really not how consent works.

So even if a person is deceased, consent really, really, really does matter.

Would they have ever wanted to have been resurrected in any digital form whatsoever?

So I think that matters to a very, very large extent.

And, you know, this technology is emerging quite quickly.

And, you know, it's got different names.

Some of them are pretty gruesome, like death bots and grief bots.

And I'm now speaking about the deceased.

And look, when it gets into entertainment, if we have time, we could talk about that because rock stars and things are being, you know, resurrected.

So.

You know, I'm a person that has done grief work with people in the past.

I'm a former social worker.

And I'm trying to keep an open mind on this.

And, you know, the real authorities will be people that have had experience with it rather than what people think should happen.

We just don't have a lot of evidence on that yet.

They absolutely do.