Why don't parents impart their knowledge to an AI for their children?

Question

Children probably don't want to hear endless and boring details about what they should do when their parents die.For example, how should they make funeral arrangements, continue to pay bills, maintain the house, etc.?But this knowledge could be imparted to an AI that their children would access after their parents die.

catchnear4321 · Accepted Answer

Or you could write it down explicitly and there would be zero risk of the messenger hallucinating.The recipient risk would possibly be lower as well.

muzani · Answer

I want them to move on, not talk to a ghost of me. My late father was a really interesting guy to talk to and rich folk pay him lots of money for advice, but I can't even read his emails anymore. One of my favorite aunts died with no descendants and we just squat in her hut when we're in town. But we still haven't fully gotten over her death several years ago.Even if AI could recreate dead people 100%, I think it's just not a good idea. If I wanted advice, I'd listen to AI Churchill or something.

fdgsdfogijq · Answer

People should just wear microphones their whole lives, and then dump the audio into an LLM when they die. Then their descendants can talk to them hundreds of years after theyre gone

wnkrshm · Answer

You gotta have a pretty high opinion of the quality of your own advice to want to do this.
Whatever you impart to the past max not have any relevance anymore once you're dead. Things change and your children will be better adapted to it to make the right decisions.
Except of course if you mean something like "how to maintain this specific grandfather clock I've left you" - which they may just throw out.

eimrine · Answer

AI is a bad environment both for remembering anything and not giving this knowledge to a third parties such as a real owner of a computer with a running binary on it. Especially if we are talking about email accounts or finance data such as crypto wallets.Maybe this protocol will help you https://github.com/christophercalm/if-im-gone

runjake · Answer

AI could go away, go paid, get deleted, or mangle the information.
It's just easier to write notes in some form.
I'm increasingly weary of integrating technology, especially for-profit corporate technology, intimately. And yeah, as another commenter mentioned, talking to a "ghost" of me would be weird.

bell-cot · Answer

When finally needed, the AI tech that you used for the knowledge will be wretchedly obsolete / shunned / illegal / lost / no longer usable. Meanwhile, "pencil on paper" will be be going through yet another retro-tech revival.

selfhoster11 · Answer

That sounds extremely dystopian. No, thank you.

daltont · Answer

Superman The Movie was more prophetic than we thought.