Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Eriksen, Eriksen

Titel

The Human Version 2.0: AI, Humanoids, and Immortality

Ist Teil von

• Social analysis, 2021-03, Vol.65 (1), p.70-88

Ort / Verlag

Berghahn Books, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract This article investigates new ethnography on AI development relating to imaginaries of technoscientific forms of immortality. As a Think Piece in Analytics, it engages in a somewhat experimental comparative endeavor as I set concepts from the ethnographic field of transhumanism in a comparative relation to concepts developed in the anthropological theory of Christianity, mainly Dumont's concept of the ‘individual-in-the-world’. I argue that through such a comparison we can understand recently developed ideas about the (technologically) immortal human being in a new light. The article points to how technoscientific immortality echoes core cultural themes, but it also considers a major difference in the perception of the social. When death is made redundant, the question of how sociality is reproduced moves center stage.