Dead Bots and Data Sets.
Who owns the deceased? Who knows the deceased? Who gets to simulate the deceased? Do we ever fully know someone? Can the ‘grief bot’ companies really replicate? Do they have the right data? Do they have the rights to the data?
Here are 10 minutes of ‘starter’ thoughts on the subject.
https://open.substack.com/pub/nudgethefuture/p/our-data-our-future-a-short-podcast-2d7
“Let Them Be” is a story I’ve wanted to tell for a while, and now it’s published with thanks to The World of Myth Magazine.
Quite a pertinent place for it to be, given it’s about how we rise above the mundane of an AI future.
“My Vagus Proxy”, which was a top ten winner in the Dubai Future Foundation competition has been selected for the Best of British Science Fiction 2025 (NewCon Press)
The “Creative Futures” anthology (Flame Tree Press) that came from the project with Coventry University and DSTL has been shortlisted for a BSFA Award.
My story “Fake” sits alongside some other great stories.
It’s here – the next episode of Our Data, Our Future, where Robin Riback and I drop our thoughts into a short podcast, aiming to create ripples and waves of further thought.
How data brings us together (spoiler – we’re being positive), posing the question of whether we can shift our interaction with ‘the algorithm’ from passivity to puncturing?
https://nudgethefuture.substack.com/p/our-data-our-future-a-short-podcast-244