Eternal You review: Would you resurrect a dead loved one with AI, asks a new documentary

Eternal You
Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck
Selected cinemas, UK and Ireland

WOULD you want to talk to a dead loved one? The new film Eternal You explores “grief technologies” that set out to reanimate the dead by feeding data they generated in life to large language models (LLMs), a form of artificial intelligence. This superb documentary is also a timely warning about who owns our data when we die and why this matters.

For years, Joshua Barbeau grieved for his fiancée Jessica. Then he found a…