Project Re-Birth

Can we create a way to clone humans? With the advances in AI, can we really clone someone by collecting the data we need, with an AI in their pocket every day picking up their mannerisms and everything else?

Attach that to holographic tech (Project Holo) and a sensory suit that can feel touch (Project Sense).

The combination could really bring people back to life.

Research notes

What’s already happening in this space, as of October 2026.

Capturing a person

• AI in your pocket already exists. Always-listening wearables record and transcribe the conversations around you. Meta bought Limitless, maker of a pendant that does this, in December 2025. Amazon bought Bee, a wristband that records and summarizes conversations, earlier in 2025.
• A short interview can capture a lot. In a 2024 study by Stanford, Google DeepMind and others, researchers interviewed 1,052 people for two hours each and built an AI agent for each one. On a standard social survey, the agents’ answers matched each person’s own answers 85% as well as those people matched their own answers two weeks later (paper, Stanford HAI summary).

Talking to the dead

• Griefbots are a product category. HereAfter AI, StoryFile and Project December let people talk with AI versions of people who have died. A September 2025 Nature feature counted more than half a dozen such platforms, and their developers claim millions of users (Nature feature, reposted).
• Ethicists see real risks. A 2024 Cambridge paper in Philosophy & Technology warns about unwanted “digital hauntings” and about companies using a dead person’s likeness to advertise to their family. It argues that both the person being recreated and the people talking to the recreation need to consent, and that there should be a way to retire a deadbot (summary).

The law

• California now requires consent. Since January 1, 2025, its law AB 1836 has required consent to make a digital replica of a dead person’s voice or likeness in films, shows and recordings. It is aimed at performers, not private griefbots (summary).