Some may fear the liberties AI will take with the legacies of the dead. To this we emphasise that these liberties are ours to authorise. Chatbots of the dead are creative representations that users should take an active role in shaping. Imagination is integral to all creative representations of the past because imagination is inextricable from memo... See more

Like human mediums and Ouija boards, these bots appear to meet one of our deepest desires: to speak with the dead once again.

When I last searched the name of a real person, a name which only came to me in missing posters and pleas for a safe return, a name which came to exist in my mind that day as a result of something very raw and real and human, I was presented some of the most clinical and fundamentally in-human writing I’ve ever read. The uncanniness and insensitivi... See more