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'Immortality roadmap': could an AI one day bring you back to life?

By T.K. Randall
August 10, 2025 ·  12 comments

Image: AI-generated (Midjourney) Imagine for a moment that, one day in the far future, a super-advanced artificial intelligence will learn everything there is to know about your life and then create a digital copy of you - perfect in every way - that will go on to live out your entire life all over again in a virtual simulated world.

When that copy of you dies, it then goes on to live in a digital, simulated version of the afterlife.

It won't just happen to you either - the AI will do the same with everyone who has ever existed.

This is the bizarre prediction of Russian transhumanist Alexey Turchin who has spent years developing an "immortality roadmap" for such a scenario in the distant future.The concept gets even more 'out there' when you consider that, in order to have enough power to actually achieve all this, the AI would need access to the energy of an entire Sun, thus necessitating a Dyson Sphere - a gargantuan megastructure in space that entirely encompasses a star.

But even if this was possible, could an AI ever truly resurrect someone digitally ?

"I don't think you could subject somebody to the same developmental conditions they had in life, because that presupposes you know all their developmental conditions, from the guy who picked on that person that day when they were very young to what day the person received that award," physicist Stephen Holler told Popular Mechanics.

"There are many things we don't know that historically molded the way a person's life turned out."

"Those aren't part of any record, making it a very hard thing to resurrect somebody."

Source: Popular Mechanics | Comments (12)

Tags: Resurrection, Immortality