“Why must everything, even death, be subjected to the bureaucratic rationality that has swallowed the horizon of what’s possible with computation?”
– Tech critic
Edward Ongweso Jr, condemning
2wai—an app promising to resurrect loved ones as AI chatbots. Contrasting early 20th century
egalitarian visions of resurrection with today’s transhumanist schemes, he argues Silicon Valley has perverted humanity’s impulse to preserve relationships beyond death into an extraction racket.
