Do ‘Griefbots’ Help Mourners Deal With Loss?
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Do ‘Griefbots’ Help Mourners Deal With Loss?
Griefbots, Deadbots, Postmortem Avatars: on Responsible Applications of Generative AI in the Digital Afterlife Industry - Philosophy & Technology
Tomasz Hollaneklink.springer.com
The assumption that a chatbot delivers – or seeks to deliver – an authoritative replication of a deceased person makes as much sense as the assumption that an actor’s portrayal of a historical figure in a drama represents the sole faithful depiction of that figure.
Amy Kurzweil • Are chatbots of the dead a brilliant idea or a terrible one? | Aeon Essays
But what’s new now is that AI can make those loved ones say or do things they never said or did in life, raising both ethical concerns and questions around whether this helps or hinders the grieving process.
When grief and AI collide: These people are communicating with the dead | CNN Business
Practitioners should look to the arts and other cultural resources that help people deal with loss and memorialise history. For example, a chatbot could be designed to speak as a spiritual medium channelling the deceased from a spiritual realm in order to emphasise the separation of death and impart a sense of mysticism to the imaginative experienc... See more