aceFrom bones to bytes: anticipating and addressing the governance challenges of human digital remains and posthumous digital human twins
Abstract During the nineteenth century, advances in medical research led to grave robbing and an illicit market in human biological remains (HBR). The historical episode of grave robbing illustrates how science can upend social norms. A similar scenario could soon emerge, but this time it will not be with people's biological remains, but with people's digital remains. Artificial intelligence and extended reality now create digital representations from avatars to human digital twins. In addition to the sophistica…
Researchers propose an HDR governance framework for AI-created human digital twins that would protect citizen autonomy after death through advance data directives and data trustees.
Human Digital Remains created by AI from personal and biometric data face existing legal and ethical gaps because neither GDPR nor the AI Act currently extends rights to the deceased.
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- Peer-reviewedAI & SOCIETY2025-10-03
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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-0620, v1: “From bones to bytes: anticipating and addressing the governance challenges of human digital remains and posthumous digital human twins.” Truvace, 2026-08-01. /record/TRV-2026-0620 (accessed at citation time). sha256 1e6a12e115f39885…
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