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Write down what should happen to your digital life, including your voice and likeness
Why it matters: AI can now recreate a person's voice and face from recordings. Families increasingly face questions about memorial accounts, AI recreations and what to delete; a written wish answers them before anyone has to argue.
Do it
- Decide which accounts should be memorialized, kept or deleted.
- Say whether you consent to anyone making an AI recreation of your voice or likeness, and for what.
- Say what should happen to your AI chat histories and AI memories.
- Store the note with your will and tell your executor; discuss it with an estate attorney.
Check it worked: Your wishes for your photos, social accounts, AI chat histories and any recordings of your voice or face are written down with your estate papers.
Simply put
It's like leaving a note about the music you'd want at your memorial: it saves your family from guessing. AI can now recreate a voice and face, so saying what you consent to settles it in advance.
In detail
Some states have begun legislating rights over digital replicas of a person's voice and likeness, such as Tennessee's ELVIS Act, but the law is uneven. A clear written wish helps your family and your executor whatever the law says.
Points toward the Long View: your wishes about your voice and likeness, written down before anyone has to ask.