Chat bots, James Dean … can the digital dead rest in peace?

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Chat bots, James Dean … can the digital dead rest in peace?

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James Dean 1955
Sixty four years after his death, a reanimated ‘James Dean’ will reportedly be starring in a new film

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“To be dead,” wrote the 20th century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, “is to be a prey for the living.” Even Sartre, though, would have struggled