AI brought back Agatha Christie

Black Mirror’s biggest competitor may just be reality. Ethical quandaries abound this week in the aftermath of two eyebrow-raising, unrelated instances of virtual resurrection:

• BBC Maestro (a service like MasterClass) launched a “world-first” writing course last week taught by an AI version of the late mystery writer Agatha Christie, in cooperation with her estate, using her writing and interviews, the BBC said.
• The next day, in Arizona, an AI rendering of a man who was killed in 2021