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The ability to communicate with the dead. Immortality. Conquering death and breaking down the impenetrable barrier between the living and departed: it’s something humans have long strived for. Are advancements in technology bringing us closer to that dream? Today, WIRED breaks down the ways technology is reshaping the afterlife—and what it means to be dead.…

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The ability to communicate with the dead. Immortality. Conquering death and breaking down the impenetrable barrier between the living and departed: it’s something humans have long strived for. Are advancements in technology bringing us closer to that dream? Today, WIRED breaks down the ways technology is reshaping the afterlife—and what it means to be dead.

Director: Efrat Kashai
Director of Photography: Chris Eustache
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Host: Andrew Couts
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  1. @RhynadaLong

    October 31, 2025 at 12:01 pm

    First comment 😂

    • @bobbyblazini

      October 31, 2025 at 2:10 pm

      Frozen in time, forever.

  2. @MrCjlance

    October 31, 2025 at 12:01 pm

    2

  3. @R.Byleth

    October 31, 2025 at 12:09 pm

    nothing is meant to last forever, humans should just accept their mortality like literally everything else on the planet

    • @camronlindsey2036

      October 31, 2025 at 12:17 pm

      I’m sayin!!

    • @StrawB0ss

      October 31, 2025 at 12:27 pm

      Go for it. I finna live to be 1000

    • @JustSomeoNe-e9g

      October 31, 2025 at 1:39 pm

      well, i don’t think this is the correct way to see things. We need to control nature and overcome death.

    • @RoaldRoberts

      October 31, 2025 at 2:15 pm

      exactly

    • @AnEvilEel

      October 31, 2025 at 4:01 pm

      Humans have never accepted their position in the universe. That how they got to the moon, that’s how they made the Atomic Bomb.

  4. @samthurgood

    October 31, 2025 at 12:13 pm

    This is such a great series

  5. @AikelJoseph

    October 31, 2025 at 12:28 pm

    that thumbnail is like when markiplier was hospitalized

  6. @RoaldRoberts

    October 31, 2025 at 2:13 pm

    AI avatars of the deceased? Nah. That is so morbid and creepy and wrong imho **shivers** and as a believer in souls and reincarnation, it’s not them, it’s never them, its not their voices. Who wants a fake version of a loved one? This is just how we want it to be, gotta just accept man. And I’d say you’ll meet them again on the other side and we do live forever but I know not everybody believes. In my perspective, I’d rather live my life to its natural end, go back to the “source”, then live my next life. Btw, no one can definitely say *yes* or *no* yet to whether consciousness is only a product of the brain or something more.

    • @infinitemonkey917

      October 31, 2025 at 5:04 pm

      Right, and nobody can say that there is or isn’t an invisible dragon with anti-radar, anti-sonar and anti-lidar tech living on my roof.

    • @RoaldRoberts

      October 31, 2025 at 5:19 pm

      @infinitemonkey917 sounds a little paranoid, but good one. It’s one of those things you have to see to believe, you know? An anti-radar dragon on my roof tho, no 😄

    • @infinitemonkey917

      October 31, 2025 at 7:00 pm

      @RoaldRoberts Just making the point that because something isn’t falsifiable, that doesn’t make it a viable possibility. I haven’t seen a soul, just as you haven’t seen my dragon buddy.

    • @infinitemonkey917

      October 31, 2025 at 7:03 pm

      I do like metal, folk, rock and sci-fi, though.

  7. @Xking3000

    October 31, 2025 at 3:26 pm

    I thought this was a Simon Whistler video at first based off of the thumbnail.

    • @Jasonxbr

      October 31, 2025 at 5:56 pm

      I thought so too😂😂😂😂😂

  8. @michaelpipkin9942

    October 31, 2025 at 3:44 pm

    I thought Simon was being tested upon…….

  9. @urbanstrencan

    October 31, 2025 at 4:31 pm

    another great video, keep it up 🤟

  10. @kristin9123

    October 31, 2025 at 5:55 pm

    Every time I see him, I think it’s Simon Whistler 😅

  11. @iamdmc

    October 31, 2025 at 6:14 pm

    Terrible, bad, no good idea

  12. @lowbudgetmic

    October 31, 2025 at 6:25 pm

    Undead 🧟 😮😮😮

  13. @rosscomt5295

    October 31, 2025 at 7:23 pm

    Having lost my mum only 4 months ago. Death is something, that once you witness it fundamentally changes who you are. It’s bad enough with how your own mind processes it, let alone creating avatars. It’s difficult enough on what to do with someone’s worldly possessions such as clothes, shoes, jewelry etc let alone create artificial connections that I think would create unending grief.

  14. @techinthehouse

    October 31, 2025 at 7:24 pm

    Nice. These really are the hard questions we’re going to have to start asking the more this tech evolves

  15. @michelleloper8878

    October 31, 2025 at 7:40 pm

    Are we not gonna talk about that Black Mirror episode??

    • @aliothspectranet5678

      November 3, 2025 at 4:11 am

      our obsession with fictional examples filling in for our non-examples is actually a big issue with how we talk about AI

  16. @rikachiu

    October 31, 2025 at 8:31 pm

    You will never ever be able to recreate someone with AI. Maybe your perception of the person, but nobody is ever truly their true self to anyone. You can tell me you know someone better than yourself and I will never believe you.

  17. @SHDW-nf2ki

    October 31, 2025 at 11:11 pm

    If someone made an AI copy of my dad I’d kill it with an axe.

  18. @lil----lil

    October 31, 2025 at 11:23 pm

    I recently had a sugeny and was put on anastatic. I _ONLY_ remembered the events up to the point when I was talking with the anesthesiologist TWO hours BEFORE the operation. When I “woke up” it felt like coming out of a “Blank” state as I remembered absolutely NOTHING nor pain despite the fact I have THREE covered holes in my body. The first thing that came to my mind: HOW NICE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN to die while under anesthesia? There was NO PAIN, NO DREAMS, NO Astral projection, NO feelings or awareness of ANY KIND. Just two hours of PURE stillness.

  19. @karoke6

    November 1, 2025 at 12:20 am

    I’m no stranger to grief, but all of this just seems like a colossally bad idea

  20. @oldcowbb

    November 1, 2025 at 1:33 am

    AI zombie is so disgusting

  21. @Craigbn981

    November 1, 2025 at 1:53 am

    I hope by the time I’m old or have a debilitating illness, there’ll be easy access to ‘medications’ which lead to a peaceful death. No religion involved, please.

  22. @currykingwurst6393

    November 1, 2025 at 6:45 am

    I thought this was just another one of Simon Whistler’s videos in my sub box.

  23. @czechoutboom1597

    November 1, 2025 at 12:08 pm

    Boo! I thought this was going to be Internet Historian / Incognito mode face reveal. Boo!

  24. @darkmarc

    November 1, 2025 at 4:17 pm

    The cryo-preservation stuff is interesting and only history will have the final say on whether it was a good idea or not, but the rest of this — people interacting with half-assed AI versions of the dead — is just mental-illness-promoting nonsense. Your family member is dead. You playing with a database about them isn’t a replacement.

  25. @magstheonlyone

    November 1, 2025 at 7:50 pm

    They moved on. Why can’t we

  26. @phillipmoore6249

    November 1, 2025 at 10:52 pm

    It’s a black screen. Do you remember before you were born? No.

  27. @OktoberStorm

    November 2, 2025 at 5:23 am

    The subject is interesting, but if the video opens with an introduction to what cryogenics is and there’s no chapters so I have to look for when the video actually starts, then I’m out. I don’t need yet another introduction just to hear someone’s opinion about it, just link me to the chapter that actually says something new.

  28. @killingfield

    November 2, 2025 at 9:06 pm

    Wired never misses a chance to slip in some “gun control” 4:08. It’s like their fetish.

  29. @D.O.E._LLC

    November 3, 2025 at 12:08 pm

    😂 the lawyers are having a field day with an ai witness.😂😂😂

  30. @krishnachoudhari.youtube

    November 3, 2025 at 11:47 pm

    Presumed to be his own word? I call BS

  31. @DanielKolbin

    November 4, 2025 at 5:09 am

    hmmmmmm

  32. @DanielSingularity

    November 4, 2025 at 5:09 am

    hmmmmmm

  33. @gtrida

    November 4, 2025 at 12:29 pm

    Perhaps good for therapeutic purposes helping people handle grief, or some sort of closure, but overall I find this a terrible idea.
    Deep fakes has been an issue for a few years, but only became a mainstream concern now.

  34. @jessemairose4534

    November 4, 2025 at 6:14 pm

    Am I the only one who feels like I’m being screamed at by this guy? 🤣

  35. @jessemairose

    November 4, 2025 at 6:14 pm

    Am I the only one who feels like I’m being screamed at by this guy? 🤣

  36. @Cherrywifebanger

    November 5, 2025 at 12:11 am

    i’d like this for animals not humans tho

  37. @Steven-p2n1l

    November 5, 2025 at 1:47 pm

    I pray they probably could keep someone alive with Quantum Artificial Intelligence by going right into treating and recovering the problem also save and rescue after a case of death with Time Travel to recover, Fault Tolerant Quantum Computer 2029, Quantum Internet reading universe program Stargate flight doing better than money restore experience time in advancements nature in technology doing better than death everything in life Aliens among us and God bless America the future and life extension of the universe. Amen. God bless.

  38. @badboydrd

    November 6, 2025 at 12:35 pm

    Well hello Black Mirror

  39. @DrQuiza

    November 7, 2025 at 2:51 pm

    What about not valuing people anymore because once you mistreat them and scare them away, you know you can resort to a idealised version of themselves on AI?

  40. @cargi9926

    November 8, 2025 at 8:38 am

    1:34

  41. @toddhensley880

    November 9, 2025 at 7:34 am

    It’s not your loved one. It’s fake. It’s fictional. It’s unhealthy for the same reason visiting “mediums” is unhealthy. It’s someone fabricating artificial interaction with a person who is no longer alive. It’s a con. It’s dishonest.

  42. @devina.2238

    November 9, 2025 at 1:13 pm

    Humans are not supposed to be God, and playing God will backfire horrifically

  43. @dasstigma

    November 10, 2025 at 4:42 am

    You like to play make-believe?
    The spirit of your deceased lover totally took possession of me.
    Promise.

  44. @YouGuessIGuess

    November 10, 2025 at 5:44 pm

    Look forward to receiving auto-generated ads for “AI Grief Counseling Services” when your loved ones start killing themselves because they can’t find jobs in a polluted hellscape of strip mines and data centers.

  45. @kened8136

    November 10, 2025 at 7:52 pm

    Only desparate assholes will use AI to communicate (????????) with the dead. Waste of time and space.

  46. @kened8136

    November 10, 2025 at 7:56 pm

    There are no aliens visiting earth ever. AI will never be sentient and it will never replace human brain power. AI will not help people communicate with their loved ones. It can’t because they are dead. Deceased. No longer in reality. Communicate? Get it?

  47. @tessellatiaartilery8197

    November 10, 2025 at 11:55 pm

    Isn’t avoidance and denial of reality a sign of being mentally unwell? Loss is hard. But playing mind games with oneself in a purchased subscription to psychosis surely will not lead to healthy or positive outcomes. That this whole industry exists is disturbing. It seems like an extension of the fake psychics who prey on the bereaved by claiming connections with the ‘other side.’

  48. @superdinoman

    November 11, 2025 at 2:55 am

    Dang thought this was gonna be Simon and got played

  49. @ElJuToob-FashiZzy

    November 14, 2025 at 12:31 am

    So just fyi people mix these up. Cryogenics is the science of extremely low temperatures. Cryonics is the attempt to preserve a human body or brain at very low temperatures after legal death, hoping future technology can revive it. Freezing bodies to bring them back later, the correct term is cryonics.

  50. @ChibiChihiro

    November 17, 2025 at 8:00 am

    I despise AI

  51. @AnymMusic

    November 17, 2025 at 7:22 pm

    The most interesting thing in this video was the fact that someone was able to be cryogenically frozen in the mid-late 1900s

  52. @NumNumbat

    November 20, 2025 at 9:33 pm

    AI is empowering people who otherwise would not have the creative skills. And you can bet that creative people are using AI too, if they can.

  53. @justsomeone64

    November 21, 2025 at 2:20 am

    2:44 They get you attached to an AI of someone you’ve lost…

    Then paywall em, and go “give a grand a month to see them again”

  54. @neviswarren

    November 26, 2025 at 6:03 pm

    interesting. thanks.

  55. @ForensicFactions

    December 4, 2025 at 7:25 am

    that thumbnail is like when markiplier was hospitalized

  56. @CourtneySimpson-YouTub

    December 28, 2025 at 7:03 pm

    Check yourself. 0:01

  57. @psycleen

    January 21, 2026 at 2:05 pm

    day eye die

  58. @RandyRhodes-dp3sw

    February 8, 2026 at 7:33 pm

    Hey I got a question, I’ve been a targeted individual for about 5 years now and as recent as 2 years ago they’ve been running v2k on me ,and synthetic telepathy, and some thing called a all seeing eye is want this crap off of me any ideas that will help and also they’ve been running virtual memory rewind Ai i need help bad

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