Being Human Artificial Intelligence

Struggling with a hard life choice? AI future selves have tips

Avatars help people envision tomorrow, but their creators' worldviews influence the advice

By Sujata Gupta

Social Sciences Writer

Chatbots can generate images and videos of people projected years or decades into the future.

AI algorithms can digitally age, and then animate, images of a person. These avatars can chat with people about competing desires for the future, but it's not clear if decisions made in the moment will stick.

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In each installment of the Back to the Future movie franchise, a time machine drives the same general script: The main character must rewrite a moment in time to fix his family and friends’ lives.