Grief in the age of AI
People are turning to chatbot impersonations of lost loved ones to help them grieve. Will AI help us live after we’re dead?
Irina Raicu, the Internet Ethics Program director at Santa Clara University, says that it is “very troubling” that AI is being used in this way. “I think there are dignitary rights even after somebody passes away, so it applies to their voices and their images as well. I also feel like this kind of treats the loved ones as kind of a means to an end,” she says. “I think aside from the fact that a lot of people would just be uncomfortable with having their images and videos of themselves used in this way, there’s the potential for chatbots to completely misrepresent what people would’ve said for themselves.”
Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by The Guardian.