Media & Talks
Selected Media and Public Appearances
Interviews
El Confidencial
La investigadora que más sabe sobre la IA de la inmortalidad digital: “Puede llegar a ser adictiva”
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El Pais
Katarzyna Basinska, investigadora: “Será normal que a mucha gente le apetezca chatear con sus seres queridos muertos”
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Science in Poland / PAP
Immortality no longer considered a thought experiment – w rozmowie z Szymonem Zdziebłowskim
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Weekend / Gazeta
Przeżywamy nie swoje żałoby. „Zaciera się różnica między tym, co prywatne, a tym, co publiczne”
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PAP
Tworzenie awatarów czy przeszczepy umysłów – sposobami na nieśmiertelność? – w rozmowie z Szymonem Zdziebłowskim
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Spider’s Web+
Żyjesz tylko raz. Ale nieśmiertelnie – w rozmowie z Adamem Bednarkiem, 3 lipca 2023
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Kultura u Podstaw
Ćwiczenia z nieśmiertelności dr Katarzyny Nowaczyk-Basińskiej – w rozmowie z Martyną Nicińska, 8 sierpnia 2023
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HelloZdrowie
O cyfrowej śmierci i nowych miejscach wspólnej żałoby – w rozmowie z Alicją Cembrowską, 1 listopada 2022
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Podcasts & Broadcasts
Radio RAM
audycja FutuRAM: Cyfrowa nieśmiertelność – w rozmowie z Maćkiem Przestalskim, 30 października 2021
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TVP3 Dokument
program Barbara Włodarczyk zaprasza – komentarz do filmu „W pogoni za nieśmiertelnością” 23 października 2022.
Commentary
BBC News
«Обычная иллюзия». Как семьи воюющих в Украине россиян героизируют и «воскрешают» их с помощью ИИ
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The Guardian
I felt I was talking to him’: are AI personas of the dead a blessing or a curse?
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Fast Company
AI ‘deadbot’ tech offers multiple ways to cope with grief but also raises questions
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Interesting Engineering
AI afterlife: Digital resurrection of dead raises ethical concerns
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SciTechDaily
Cambridge Experts Warn: AI “Deadbots” Could Digitally “Haunt” Loved Ones From Beyond the Grave
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Qatar Tribune
AI is imitating the dead and dying, raising new questions about grieving – Read Qatar Tribune on the go for unrivalled news coverage
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Tech Times
Deadbots: AI Ethicists Raise Concerns About Potential ‘Hauntings’ of AI Chatbots by Deceased Loved Ones
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Newseria
Deadboty mogą być niebezpieczne dla żywych. Istnieje ryzyko manipulowania ludźmi w żałobie i wpływania na ich psychikę
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Newseria
Deadboty mogą być niebezpieczne dla żywych. Istnieje ryzyko manipulowania ludźmi w żałobie i wpływania na ich psychikę
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Down To Earth
Digitally immortalising departed loved ones comes with ethical concerns: Study calls for cautious de
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UNILAD
Experts issue warning over fears of ‘haunting’ new AI tool that brings deceased loved ones ‘back to life’
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Türkiye Today
From ‘Black Mirror’ to reality: AI technologies allow interactions with dead
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The Debrief
Future Humans Could be Haunted by Digital “Ghosts” of Their Dead Loved Ones, Researchers Warn
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Financial Post
Mourners can now speak to an AI version of the dead. But will that help with grief?
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Daily Mail
Think twice before using AI to digitally resurrect a dead loved one: So-called ‘griefbots’ could HAUNT you, Cambridge scientists warn
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Interia Wydarzenia
“El Pais”: Firmy pracują nad “cyfrową nieśmiertelnością”. Polska badaczka z niepokojem o szczegółach
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Indicator
‘Digital desecrations’: when deepfakes are used to mock tragic deaths and what platforms should do about it
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ScienceAlert
‘Deadbots’ Could Be The Future of Advertising, Ethicists Warn, And We’re Not Ready
Read moreSelected talks & presentations
Funermostra – International Funeral and Cemetery Industry Trade Fair, Valencia, Spain, 2025
Griefbots, Deadbots, Posthumous Avatars: Current Developments and Future Possibilities of the Digital Afterlife Industry
Invited expert lecture — addressing the emergence of the digital afterlife industry and its implications for grief, memory and the professionalisation of death care. Presented as part of the international programme of Funermostra, a major professional trade fair for the funeral and cemetery sector.
Seminar Series on Cross-Cultural Approaches to Desirable AI, 2026
Digital Immortality: Cross-Cultural Approaches to Death and Dying in the Age of AI
Watch moreInvited research presentation, Digital Immortality session — presenting an intercultural perspective on digital immortality and examining how cultural contexts shape understandings of death, dying, memory and AI.
Centrum Kultury ZAMEK, Poznań, Poland, 2026
Ćwiczenia z (nie)śmiertelności
Presented as part of the public programme accompanying the exhibition AI – Algorytmy Iluzji, 16 May 2026.
V Ogólnopolska Konferencja Medycyny Paliatywnej „Odchodzić bez bólu”, Poznań, Poland, 2026
Między pamięcią a technologią – wyzwania i szanse cyfrowego „życia po życiu” w opiece paliatywnej
Invited lecture — exploring the implications of digital afterlife technologies for palliative care, memory, grief and relationships with the deceased.
Jesus College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 2024
Digital Immortality: On New Forms of Care, Responsibility, and Empathy in the Age of AI
Watch moreInvited keynote lecture, Jesus Intellectual Forum, Death and Dying Series — an interdisciplinary lecture examining how AI-driven forms of digital immortality are transforming ideas of care, responsibility, empathy and relationships with the dead.
Centrum Nauki Kopernik, Warsaw, Poland, 2025
Ćwiczenia z (nie)śmiertelności
Invited public lecture, Wieczory dla dorosłych: Po drugiej stronie życia — a public lecture exploring digitally simulated dead people, AI and emerging forms of posthumous presence, and the ethical and cultural dilemmas raised by technologies that seek to extend human presence beyond death.
University of Cambridge, Jesus College, Cambridge, UK, 2026
Imaginaries of Immortality in the Age of AI: Preliminary Insights
Project findings presentation and public panel discussion — presentation of findings from an international research project examining how people in Poland, India and China understand emerging technologies of digital immortality. The event also featured a photographic installation by artist Tomasz Siuda, curated by Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basińska, and a panel discussion with members of the research team.
TED AI Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 2026
The AI and Immortality Roleplay: Negotiating Memory, Care and Power
Discovery Leader, TED AI Vienna 2026 — Together with Dr Tomasz Hollanek, I will lead a participatory workshop using speculative scenarios and role-play to explore how AI may reshape our relationships with memory, the dead and one another. The intervention invites participants to take on different roles within imagined digital afterlife scenarios and critically examine questions of care, responsibility, power, ownership and the right to be forgotten.
School of Philosophy & Interdisciplinary Platform for Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China, 2025
Imaginaries of Immortality in the Age of AI: An Intercultural Analysis
Death Online Research Symposium, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2024
Digital Afterlife Leaders: Professionalization as Social Innovation in the Digital Afterlife Industry
Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF), UK, 2025
Digital Afterlife Leaders: Professionalization as Social Innovation in the Digital Afterlife Industry
Invited expert briefing for senior policymakers — a briefing delivered to approximately 150 UK delegates from the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum, exploring the legal, ethical and regulatory implications of emerging professional roles within the digital afterlife industry.
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Sheffield, UK, 2024
Digital Afterlife Leaders: Professionalization as Social Innovation in the Digital Afterlife Industry
B’AI Global Forum × LCFI Joint Workshop “Pro-Justice: Cross-Cultural Approaches to AI Ethics”, University of Tokyo / B’AI Global Forum, Tokyo, Japan, 2026