What Happens to Your Digital Self When You Die?
What happens when AI can reconstruct the dead & who is responsible for what comes next?
Every voice note you send, photo you upload and message you back up is creating something most of us have never really considered: a digital version of you that could outlive you.
In this episode of HardWired: The Human Algorithm, Lena Chauhan sits down with Jake Moore, Global Cybersecurity Advisor at ESET and former digital forensics officer, to explore the increasingly blurred line between innovation, exploitation and identity.
We get into grief bots, AI companions, voice cloning, deepfakes and digital immortality... and the uncomfortable questions technology is forcing us to confront.
Who owns your digital self after you die?
Should AI be allowed to recreate someone who never consented to it?
What happens when a grieving child can continue talking to a dead parent?
And when the same technology can recreate your face and voice for fraud, where exactly is the line between connection and exploitation?
Jake has spent years investigating cybercrime and testing the limits of digital security- from cloning voices to bypassing facial recognition systems. His perspective makes one thing very clear:
The difference between an AI recreation made for comfort and a deepfake created for fraud may ultimately come down to one thing: intent.
And intent is extraordinarily difficult to regulate.
This is part ethics, part cyber threat intelligence... and part conversation about a future arriving much faster than most of us realise.
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