The subject of immortality and the preservation of the physical or spiritual self has consistently been a focal point of human thought, inspiring a multitude of reflections and suggestions. Artificial intelligence (AI) frequently emerges as a significant element in discussions surrounding the prospect of human immortality and its future. It also features prominently in the vision of an augmented humanity, which suggests an imaginary future where mankind is preserved and continues to exist through uploading, data, simulation, or a digital afterlife. Some AI-and-Technology-focused new religious movements (AI-NRMs) posit that the technology can be used to resurrect the dead in the form of digital twins, enabled by AI and other emerging technologies. This marks a pivotal shift towards immortality, involving the expansion of life in current bodies, the uploading of the human mind into new immortal bodies, and digital lives after death. In contrast, other AI-NRMs appear to diverge from this initial perspective, emphasising that such a process would merely reinforce the existing paradigm of human supremacy, which is detrimental to a comprehensive, integrated vision that can transcend our limited perspectives and facilitate access to a collective and universal consciousness: a symbiotic consciousness, connecting all humans, plants, animals, fungi and non-living entities, such as our machines, through AI interfaces. The paper aims to critically analyse the theme of (information) immortality proposed by AI-NRMs by moving on the borderline between transformation and preservation, using the perspective of the different visions presented.