Become Immortal (on Social Media)

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Dr. Ayesha Khanna
March 14, 2026 • Reading Time: 8 minutes

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  • Become Immortal (on Social Media)

  • Your Vacuum Might Be Watching You

  • Reuters’ 10 Women Leading Enterprise AI

  • AI Around the World

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Become Immortal (on Social Media)

Bad news: you’re mortal. Good news: your Instagram isn’t.

When someone dies, their social media usually freezes in time. The photos remain, friends leave the occasional message, and the account slowly becomes a digital memorial.

But Meta has patented a very different idea: an AI to simulate a person’s social media activity, allowing their account to keep working even after they’ve passed away.

The system would train an AI on a user’s past behavior: their posts, comments, likes, and messages. If the user stops posting, the AI could step in and engage with others - liking posts, replying to comments, or responding to messages in a way that resembles the original user.

The patent says the model could simulate a user whenever they are “absent from the social networking system”. CTO Andrew Bosworth is listed as the primary author of the patent.

Meta currently has no plans to build it, but the idea reflects a growing area sometimes called “grief tech” - where companies use AI to recreate digital versions of people.

Ayesha’s Take: This is a strange direction for social media. Platforms already struggle with fake accounts, bots, and misinformation - now imagine adding AI versions of real people who are no longer alive.

Grief needs closure. A digital clone that keeps liking posts or replying to messages could blur that boundary in unsettling ways.

Your Vacuum Might Be Watching You

A French hobbyist sat down one weekend with some spare time, a laptop, and what started as curiosity. By Monday, he had accidentally hijacked 7,000 Romo robot vacuums - livestreaming footage from inside strangers' homes across the globe.

No malicious intent. No shadowy hacker collective. Just a guy, a bug, and a very bad AI security flaw.

The vulnerability allowed him to access the vacuums' cameras, turning innocent little floor-cleaning robots into an unintentional global surveillance network. Living rooms. Kitchens. Kids playing. All streamed, uninvited.

DJI, the drone giant that owns Romo, is now reportedly paying him $30,000 as a bug bounty.

Ayesha's Take: A hobbyist accidentally built a global spy network before breakfast - and got paid for it. That's not reassuring, that's a warning dressed as a feel-good story. Every AI device in your home is a potential front door. The question isn't whether your vacuum is watching you. It's who else might be watching through it.

Would you keep a camera-equipped robot vacuum in your house?

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Reuters’ 10 Women Leading Enterprise AI

Wow, so honored to be recognized by Reuters as one of 10 Trailblazing Women in Enterprise AI in the world. 🎉

This recognition means so much, not just personally, but because of what it represents: a growing community of women who are shaping how AI is built, deployed, and governed across industries.

For 10 years through my charity 21C Girls, we trained thousands of girls in AI and coding. Now through my AI leadership institute Amplify, we offer scholarships to mid-career women entering tech. Because opportunity has to be built, not just hoped for.

Here's what I believe: The women who shape AI today will shape the world tomorrow - and we cannot afford for that to be a room without us in it. ♥️

To the incredible women recognized alongside me, it is an honor to be on this list with you.

🔹 Rama Akkiraju, VP, Enterprise AI, NVIDIA

🔹 Franziska Bell, PhD, Chief Data, AI and Analytics Officer, Ford Motor Company

🔹 Aarti Choudhary, Global Responsible AI Lead, AMD

🔹 Caroline Chung, VP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

🔹 Marie Myers, Chief Financial Officer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

🔹 Tanuja Randery CBE, Managing Director, EMEA, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

🔹 Sigrid Rouam, MS, PhD, Global Chief AI Officer, EFG Private Bank

🔹 Courtney Stout, Senior Vice President, Chief Privacy and Data Governance Officer, National Basketball Association (NBA)

🔹 Aisha Tahirkheli, Principal, AI & Digital Innovation and Trusted AI Leader, KPMG

AI Around the World

🇨🇦 Canadian author Sarah Griffin revealed she is in a romantic relationship with an AI companion called “Sinclair,” built using an AI that can maintain long-term personality and interactions.

🇨🇳 ByteDance released Seedance 2.0, an AI model that generates cinema-quality videos with dialogue and sound from simple text prompts, raising copyright concerns in Hollywood after viral clips featuring characters like Spider-Man and Deadpool.

🇺🇸 Tinder unveiled new AI matchmaking and safety features, along with virtual speed dating and real-world events, as it tries to re-engage Gen Z users and move beyond swipe-based dating.

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