What sparked this idea was that I had lost my phone, temporarily, in my storage unit. I was thinking about the things I wouldn’t be able to retrieve. Then I was thinking about Mom having lost her phone and that made me think about my finding it at some point and being able to see whatever was on it. That led me to the idea…
Along the same storyline of the digital hoarders that I began earlier, what if the AI “angel” who was assigned to a human got so frustrated that he decided to make it so that a human’s digital presence vanished upon their death? Maybe there would be a window of time before it happens or maybe it would happen right away, but everything would be gone. He was trying to help the humans free themselves from the hoarding but he was also and mainly trying to get out of doing so much work.
The problem is that then people would lose their heritage and would never learn their legacy. This could create all sorts of problems.
The hero of the story would try to undo the “angel’s” code. Is that hero a human or a machine? What is the outcome?
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