Chasing Permanence: AI Replicas Against Entropy

In 2017, consistent with some traditions of preserving Tibetan lamas after their deaths, I had written of an advanced digital replica as a means to preserve the persona of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Since then, AI personas, replicas and digital twins, have come of age. In 2023, an actors’ union went on a strike demanding protection from generative AI applications. While AI replicas and…