In its brave quest to never learn a single thing from science fiction, Meta has patented a literally ghoulish AI that keeps you posting long after you're dead and gone

In season two, episode one of Black Mirror—a science fiction show designed to do what good sci-fi always does, satirise and critique the future—Martha, boyfriend of the late Ash Starmer, decides to try out a new service that creates an android from her dead boyfriend's social media profiles.

The episode is about how existentially horrifying this is, a harrowing glimpse into a future where AI passes the Turing Test so thoroughly it can replace the living, breathing people in our lives with...