For as little as $10, you can talk to a deceased partner, parent, or friend. Digital afterlife platforms are using artificial intelligence to create deadbots—virtual avatars of deceased people. Researchers from the University of Cambridge are highlighting the ethical and psychological risks associated with this technology.
In Frida Gómez's opinion, mourning is a natural process to accept the absence that is real. A technology that promises to erase the absence deserves, at the very least, that we demand more of it than we demand today.
For as little as $10, you can talk to a deceased partner, parent, or friend. Digital afterlife platforms are using artificial intelligence to create deadbots—virtual avatars of deceased people. Researchers from the University of Cambridge are highlighting the ethical and psychological risks associated with this technology.