Films look at AI's take on life after death

PARK CITY, Utah — Artificial intelligence promises to make death "optional" as the technology learns to perfectly emulate our personalities, memories and dreams, keeping a version of ourselves alive long after our physical bodies have perished.

But if rapidly improving AI achieves its lofty goal of digital immortality — as its advocates believe it can — will it be a force for good or for evil?

Eternal You and Love Machina, two new documentaries that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this weekend, grapple with the question of exploring AI's relationship with death from a very different perspective.