Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP240100432

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP240100432

Funding Status
Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Digital Death and Immortality. This project will create a philosophically-informed ethical approach for managing the 'digital remains' of internet users who have died. Emerging artificial intelligence technologies make it possible to reuse and interact with these digital remains. This offers new ways of commemorating the dead and for managing grief. Yet these technologies also threaten to exploit the dead and to change our relationship to them in troubling ways. Expected outcomes of the project include guidance for the ethical use of these technologies and policy recommendations for regulating the reuse of digital remains. This will provide significant benefits by helping Australia to avoid the ethical dangers inherent in emerging technologies of 'digital reanimation.'

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2024

End Date: 12-2026

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $93,029.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Applied ethics | Metaphysics | Phenomenology | Ethical use of new technology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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