Tomas Holoneck

Tomas Holoneck is the University of Cambridge researcher interviewed by Stephanie Hughes in The ethics of using AI to immortalize the dead about AI Grief Bots and post-mortem avatars. The source presents him as focused on how personal data can be transformed into simulations of deceased people and why that raises Post-Mortem AI Consent questions.

Holoneck’s main contribution to the wiki is the governance frame. He does not argue that all digital memorial experiments should stop; he distinguishes potentially valuable family memory and survivor testimony from company-led systems that could exploit grief, violate privacy, or represent a person without consent.

Connections

• Marketplace Tech and Stephanie Hughes - show and host context.
• University of Cambridge - affiliation named in the source.
• AI Grief Bots, Post-Mortem AI Consent, and Digital Memorialization - central topics in the interview.
• Digital Preservation, Human Connection Under AI, and Persistent Agent Memory - broader wiki branches extended by the episode.