As AI systems quickly improve in both breadth and depth of performance, they
lend themselves to creating increasingly powerful and realistic agents,
including the possibility of agents modeled on specific people. We anticipate
that within our lifetimes it may become common practice for people to create a
custom AI agent to interact with loved ones and/or the broader world after
death. We call these generative ghosts, since such agents will be capable of
generating novel content rather than merely parroting content produced by their
creator while living. In this paper, we first discuss the design space of
potential implementations of generative ghosts. We then discuss the practical
and ethical implications of generative ghosts, including potential positive and
negative impacts on individuals and society. Based on these considerations, we
lay out a research agenda for the AI and HCI research communities to empower
people to create and interact with AI afterlives in a safe and beneficial
manner.

AI 系统快速提高了在性能的广度和深度上，它们能够创造越来越强大和逼真的代理人，包括以特定人物为模型的代理人，我们预计在我们有生之年，人们可能会普遍使用定制的 AI 代理人与亲人或更广泛的世界进行交互，我们称之为生成之灵，因为这样的代理人将能够生成新颖内容而不仅仅是复述其创作者在生前产生的内容，本文首先讨论了可能实现生成之灵的设计空间，随后讨论了生成之灵的实际和伦理影响，包括对个人和社会可能产生的正面和负面影响，基于这些考虑，我们提出了 AI 和人机交互研究社区的一个研究议程，以便让人们以安全和有益的方式创造和与 AI 之后的生活进行交互。