Taken another way, imagine a future where dramatically longer human lifespans are possible. Assuming there was fraud here, normal-lifespan individuals could pre

Taken another way, imagine a future where dramatically longer human lifespans are possible. Assuming there was fraud here, normal-lifespan individuals could pretend to be a single individual for an even greater period of time. Even with current technology, foundations can carry on a person’s wishes far into the future. Imagine if a personalized large language model were developed to reliably predict an individual’s future verbal utterances. Could a large language model trained on a large enough corpus of data predict the next thing a living person would do or say? If so, could there be an option to transfer personhood to the language model after that person’s death? Before judging this as impossible, think of how well our voices can be replicated by AI. As Stephen Wolfram has pointed out, this process must necessarily entail modeling the part of the cerebral cortex that produces speech.