einstein (São Paulo). 02/Jul/2025;23:eCE1590.
Metabioethics and ChatGPT-based posthumous memories at the service of palliative medicine
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2025CE1590
Dear Editor,
Biocomputer literature has speculated on ChatGPT application in post mortem interactions, i.e., the interlocution between living people and supervening “memories” of already deceased persons., Within the generative artificial intelligence (AI) research spectrum, such speculations raise a bioethical dilemma related to the violation of the dignity of dead people, who did not consent or authorize such invasive appropriation and exploitation of their memories and ethos in their lives. In a sense, our perspective presupposes and proposes a new question: is the bioethical justification of the referred ChatGPT usefulness possible? Behold an approach with its relevance relying on metaphysical insight that individual autonomy contains a post mortem projection: perhaps this is a core statement of metabioethics (or bioethical metaphysics).
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