When workers become ‘skills’: Governance gaps in AI systems (opens in new tab)

Acknowledgements The authors acknowledge support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant No. 72442028] and the China Scholarship Council [Grant No. 202506320116]. Digital immortality has long been imagined primarily in science fiction such as The Matrix. In practice, it is already emerging in a more mundane form: not as an uploaded consciousness, but as callable “skills”. A recent controversy on the Chinese internet illustrates this shift. Shortly after the death of Zhang...