CONCATENATE - HRI 2023 workshop: Social Robots Personalisation: at the crossroads between Engineering and Humanities.,Stockholm, Sweden,--. :1-4

necrorobotics, resurrection, generative AI, HRI personalisation, social robotics, ethics of personalised robotics, ethics of personalised necrorobotics, Samhällsvetenskap, Juridik, Social Sciences, Law, Humaniora och konst, Annan humaniora, Övrig annan humaniora, Humanities, Other Humanities, Other Humanities not elsewhere specified, Annan samhällsvetenskap, Other Social Sciences, Teknik, Annan teknik, Övrig annan teknik, Engineering and Technology, Other Engineering and Technologies, Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified

Ethical and legal questions of robotic personalisation can be addressed in various ways. While seeking to theorise on ethical issues related to robotic personalisation, this paper proposes the concept of necrorobotics in order to target a particular space of personalisation, governed by a variety of norms: death, and the reuse of dead persons data to create robotic agency. Based on recent advancements in what is here labeled as resurrection technologies, the paper creates a speculative provocation in order to reflect on ethical implications of using AI-tools to bring back the sounds, textual behaviour and animated imagery of a deceased friend or close relative.