Digital Duplicates, Relational Scarcity, and Value: Commentary on Danaher and Nyholm (2024)
Abstract Danaher and Nyholm (2024a) have recently proposed that digital duplicates—such as fine-tuned, “personalized” large language models that closely mimic a particular individual—might reduce that individual’s scarcity and thus increase the amount of instrumental value they can bring to the world. In this commentary, we introduce the notion of relational scarcity and explore how digital duplicates would affect the value of interpersonal relationships.
Authors
- Julian Savulescu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1691-6403)
- Christopher Register (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5957-6376)
- Brian David Earp (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9691-2888)
- Sebastian Porsdam Mann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1867-2097)
- Cristina Voinea (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4654-0697)
Institutions
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- National University of Singapore (SG)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Philosophy & Technology
- Published
- 2024-10-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-024-00813-0
- Citations
- 8
- Primary Topic
- Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.74
Funders
- National Research Foundation
- National Research Foundation Singapore