Getty Images People Could Be ‘Resurrected’ in Robotic Bodies One Day, Futurist Believes. Now He’s Taken the First Step. By Stav Dimitropoulos Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The “dead person” speaking these introspective lines is Roman Mazurenko—or rather, Roman 2.0, an AI persona reconstructed from his posthumous traces. Mazurenko was a charismatic Belarusian engineer who died in a traffic accident in 2015 at age 35. Russian transhumanist Alexey Turchin is now rebuilding him as an open-source, long-memory project designed, in theory, to persist indefinitely. This is not Mazurenko’s first resurrection. In 2016, his close partner, AI engineer Eugenia Kuyda, rebuilt him … Continue reading People Could Be ‘Resurrected’ in Robotic Bodies One Day, Futurist Believes. Now He’s Taken the First Step.