There are many interesting questions around the (still theoretical) concept of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). To me, one of those questions concerns what happens after you die.
Suppose, using some future technology, we were able to create a replica of some individual human’s mind that passed every possible test for sentience. Then the person in question dies.
From a legal and philosophical perspective, are they still alive? Does the A.I. retain any of the rights of the biological original?
For example, do they have the right not to be switched off or erased? Do they have the right not to be replicated?
And then will people be granted an inherent right, under the law, to have an A.I. back-up made of their mind? Or will that become a service you need to pay for — so that it might be available only to the wealthy and privileged?
Suppose it does turn out that a post-life A.I. can attain legal personhood. Does that mean we will have entered the age of human immortality?