AI for Death and Dying

Savin‐Baden, Maggi

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“…When this is done with clear intention and strong personification—like data‐driven avatars or AI‐powered bots that interact with the bereaved via chat or social media as the deceased (i.e. thanabots )—it is called digital immortality (Meese, Nansen, et al, 2015; Savin‐Baden, 2021; Sisto, 2020; Sofka et al, 2017). A relatively new phenomenon, digital immortality appears attractive to individuals who wish to achieve it.…”

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Information science and the inevitable: A literature review at the intersection of death and information management: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Dinneen,

Krtalić,

Davoudi

et al. 2023

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Death is an inevitable part of life and highly relevant to information management: its approach often requires preparation, and its occurrence often demands a response. Many works in information science have acknowledged so much, and yet death is rarely a focused topic, appearing instead sporadically and disconnected across research. As a result there is no introduction to, overview of, or synthesis across studies on death and information. We therefore conducted an extensive literature search and reviewed nearly 300 scholarly publications at the intersection of death and information (and data) management. Covering seven topics in total, we review two groups of work directly engaging information management in relation to death (digital possessions, inheritance, and legacy; information behavior, needs, and practices around death), three engaging death and technology that require information and its management (death and the Internet, thanatosensitive design and technology‐augmented death practices, and the digital afterlife and digital immortality), and two reflecting the ethical and legal dimensions unique to death and information. We then integrate the collective findings to summarize the landscape of death‐related information research, outline remaining challenges for individuals, families, institutions, and society, and identify promising directions for future information science research.

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Information science and the inevitable: A literature review at the intersection of death and information management: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Dinneen,

Krtalić,

Davoudi

et al. 2023

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“…The teacher's role is that of facilitator who must support the students in their research, without providing too many predefined elements and schemes, in order to quickly reach a conclusion. It is decisive her/his ability to stimulate meaningful questions and to propose problem-situations capable of soliciting in students the identification of adequate strategies to solve the problem; facilitating the learning process, she/he is characterized as metacognitive tutor of the group, planner of the module, evaluator, expert of disciplinary contents [33,34].…”

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Presentation of the paper: The Importance of Educating to Think: Teaching Methodologies and Aids from Cooperative Learning and Problem-Based Learning, with Emphasis on Science Education

Di Sia

2023

Preprint

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This paper focuses on the theme of educating to think. The education to thought is a highly topical methodology, in terms of critical thinking and doubt, which initiate processes of reflection and move away from rigid and dogmatic visions. The central point concerns the opportunity to promote a rational activity, not understood as a fideistic attitude towards the great possibilities of reason, but as adesire to direct the educational process on a well-founded scientific basis. There aremany formulations in support of educating to think; they have inspired concrete teaching methodologies focused on the development of critical thinking, preferring doubt, research, cooperative activity, problem solving. Among them, a prominent place is occupied by Cooperative Learning and Problem-Based Learning. They are characterized by analogous aspects and by different factors, but are oriented towards a common intentionality relating to the development of critical and creative thinking, through the strategy of dialogue. The paper highlights the reasons for the motivated interest in the indicated topic, underlining the need, connected to the current historical-social context, for a review of learning methods. Cooperative Learning and Problem-Based Learning are then examined, highlighting the fundamental characteristics and educational objectives. The conditions for creating a suitable climate for effective learning based on skills and competences to be improved areunderlined, describing the teaching methods of interest. These are innovative teaching methods capable of involving pupils, making them interact, making them aware of their knowledge and acquisitions, trying to develop critical and creative thinking in them. Regarding science education, the indications of scientific and pedagogical literature to direct students underline the use of the inquiry-based laboratory teaching methodology, to deal with issues of social relevance and close to students, and the use of an interdisciplinary approach. A detailed example of the application of Problem-Based Learning for science with focus in mathematics for primary school is provided before the conclusions.

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“…Technology may eventually give rise to something akin to a new form of life after death: "digital immortality." That is, individuals may eventually be able to create and maintain a digital presence by uploading a copy of their personality to a digital medium that will allow them to "outlive" their physical selves [3][4][5]. This might sound like science fiction, but our current level of technology may soon allow for the creation and activation of highly sophisticated digital avatars that will draw on photography and deep-fake technologies to look like a real person, utilize voice sampling to sound like a real person, and take advantage of recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) to, arguably, think like a real person.…”

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Who Wants to (Digitally) Live Forever? The Connections That Narcissism Has with Motives for Digital Immortality and the Desire for Digital Avatars

Besser,

Morse,

Zeigler-Hill

2023

IJERPH

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We examined the role that death anxiety (for self and others) and motivation for digital immortality played in the associations that narcissistic personality traits had with the desire for digital avatars (of self and others) in a sample of Israeli community members (N = 1041). We distinguished between four forms of narcissism: extraverted narcissism (characterized by assertive self-enhancement), antagonistic narcissism (characterized by defensiveness and hostility), neurotic narcissism (characterized by emotional distress), and communal narcissism (characterized by attempts to emphasize superiority over others by exaggerating communal characteristics such as being extraordinarily helpful). Our sequential parallel mediation analyses showed that narcissistic personality traits were associated with fear of death and the desire for symbolic immortality (having a digital avatar for self and others), with mainly indirect associations via fear of death and the motivation for eternal life and to be there for others. Discussion is focused on the role that fear of death and specific “defensive control” motives for having digital avatars (e.g., motivation for eternal life and to be there for others) may play in the desire for digital immortality reported by individuals with narcissistic personality traits.

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AI for Death and Dying

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Information science and the inevitable: A literature review at the intersection of death and information management: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Information science and the inevitable: A literature review at the intersection of death and information management: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Presentation of the paper: The Importance of Educating to Think: Teaching Methodologies and Aids from Cooperative Learning and Problem-Based Learning, with Emphasis on Science Education

Who Wants to (Digitally) Live Forever? The Connections That Narcissism Has with Motives for Digital Immortality and the Desire for Digital Avatars

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