When they can make flesh and blood human babies, and have equal if not greater intelligence to me, and it is reflected in the quality and characteristics of the child. Also a very high detail android body that looks and feels exactly like a human body (including a baby body).
Honestly, in 30-40 years, we may all have a few dozen digital copies of ourselves plugged into the net, less for immortality and more for ease of integrating massive data loads.
Have you ever had a dream, and you started recalling memories from dreams you had decades earlier… but when you wake those memories vanish… but a few years later you recall those dream memories again?
When we die, we may be left with some external hard drives that have extended memory banks on them, with internet search parameters for this and that sort of literature for research… you plug in, you know it, as you have already studied it in your electronic form… you go offline, something is amiss. You can’t recall it, but the paper produced is clearly written in your style, like a book written by a close friend.
That can be Microsoft Word 2050 edition… You die, your wife finds it on your computer, finds a AI copy of much of you… you can’t recall your wedding, the romance or the fights you had… but your raw creativity and intelligence is there… and you spell much better too due to a spell checker and thesaurus being built in.
Then she finds a video game clone of you, lacking that intelligent bookish persona. Then a secret porn stash of your preferences… etc. You have multiple online remains of various aspects of your mind plugged in.
In time, effort will be to unify these. People may backup their normal mind in full. If you were the spouse of someone, they may take comfort in still having you around.
Issue is, the more intelligent and reactive it is, closer to free will it has. Let’s say a woman divorces a man for cheating, after she has a accident and can’t have sex. She inherits his house, computer, etc… he isn’t even dead yet, but had a copy backed up from his time in the air force, then from work in a job he doesn’t do anymore and never bothered deleting that ghost copy of himself… she integrates HER property together, gets her husbands digital ghost, from before the accident. She just says his biological self is dead, not divorced… Years past, and she finds he hates her… he was always very questioning and in doubt about her, accident was merely a pretext. She gets angry, goes to delete him… but he is now everybit as complex and equal to the husband she lost previously.
What are we going to do when we have all these partial or fully human clones all around in the house, on the web,in archives? Will they get human rights? VR space costs electricity, and how long woukd you put up with that VR bulkshit before going nuts? Your intelkect is human based… we coukd collectively go batshit crazy. You buikd me a mansion in paradise, I wouldn’t bother with it… just code, just noise. After a while, fuck it.
But this ability to cynically realize your situation and futility, however human, doesnt change the fact, legal or not, your just code… someone can possess you and use you.
Im worried alot of real people with data ghosts, or fully synthetic AIs will be pushed into ever more realistic modes, to think more human, and won’t accept their loner mate. Even scanning someone’s brain to design a perfectly compatible clone runs hugh risks… people evolve over life. If your just a AI program, and some superloser finds a real woman in his 40s to 50s who isn’t the perfect woman, but still flesh and blood, how real will such a personality be if it discovers while still addicted to it he is cheating on his AI? What if a female AI discovers she has been repeatedly reset to default by a guy who keeps making the same mistakes, and his solution is to call customer service to erase the last 7 weeks in her? Massive gaps in time. A human brained model AI will notice after a while. A cognitive clone/ data ghost of you or me certainly will.
Should any woman have the ability to download my intellect and humor into a Brad Pitt AI, pit it in a clone? Find 30 million drones are cracking jokes and thinking like me, but not looking anything like me, or otherwise behaving like me, all because my account with service X got hacked, and they took my data, and many women found Mr. Philosophy irresistable, but didn’t like other aspects oof me?
Humans are diverse for a reason, we didnt evolve to perfection but cognitive specialization to a hostile universe. We rely on our social networks to collectively aid one another. I dislike the idea of everyone going with the flavor of the month for mates, merely to fill a emotionsl voud, like drug addicts like Gib do with drugs to fill a empty spot in their lives and make them feel happy… your supposed to change as a dynamic individual, become a better intergrated person individually and externally in your social relations.
This is gonna kill society off, many men simply won’t bither with pushing harder for a better life, when you can just live in poverty and isolation, plug in a visor or plug into a helmet, have a wife and mansion. If your trying to drop the humsn population to just the Amish, that is exactly how you do it.