What do we owe the dead?” is a question as ancient as philosophy itself. Now that AI can “bring back" the departed through once unimaginable technologies, perhaps the real question is: “What do we owe the living?” Science Fiction Becomes Science Reality The TV series Black Mirror tackled this question a few years ago. In the episode “Be Right Back,” a grieving woman hires a company to restore her boyfriend after he dies in a car accident. Leveraging the deceased’s “digital footprint” of social posts, texts, and voice messages, it returns her lover, first as an AI bot, then via...