The Ethics of Digital Immortality and Digital Bodies

Is it ethical to be immortalised? Where do we draw a line between enhancing body functions with technology and crafting a new body standard? If technology makes reproducibility achievable, what is it that makes human experience unique?This Autumn Fuel is producing the world premiere of a live stage production from the author of The Night Manager, David Farr, directed by Rachel Bagshaw. A Dead Body In Taos is the story of a woman who travels to the New Mexico desert to bury her dead mother, but is her mother really dead? Or is her mind still alive?This podcast will be exploring some of the issues raised by this intriguing new thriller with leading experts in the field of AI and digital ethics. There are many familiar myths around artificial intelligence, and the reality of what technology makes possible is often distorted or romanticised in our collective imagination. But instead, we want to ask what dilemmas do AI pose in our world today? And weighed against the exciting new possibilities AI presents for society, what intersectional debates and ethical conundrums this technology throws up for how we interact and develop as human beings?Hosted by renewed poet, writer and educator Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, the podcast will welcome guests from scientists and sociologists to theatre makers, who will delve with us in the grey areas of digital ethics.Produced by Fuel and funded by The Alan Turing Institute.