Two researchers navigate the mind-boggling and often sinister, parallel universe that is known as the digital afterlife industry and chatbots specifically designed to help people grieve.
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Researchers interviewed almost 30 religious leaders across all six major religious faiths in the UK to find out how AI was affecting them.
AI now makes it possible to communicate with the dead. But these digital avatars raise significant ethical questions about our relationship with mortality.
The use of AI copies of the dead for medical training remains hypothetical, but the technology to make them exists, raising questions about what it means to be dead.
The idea of digital immortality raises many legal questions – and most of them don’t have a clear answer.
Griefbots fundamentally change the process of mourning.
A scholar of Buddhism explains why creating a digital afterlife for loved ones may cause us to miss critical moments for genuine transformation and connection.
Ways to interact with virtual versions of our deceased loved ones are now a possibility – but there’s a raft of ethical and emotional challenges involved.
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