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Opinion writer recreates late mother as AI chatbot
Original: Opinion | AI can resurrect the dead. Ask my chatbot mom.
A Washington Post opinion piece describes the author building an AI chatbot modeled on their late mother, raising questions about digitally resurrecting the dead. The essay touches on grief, memory, and the ethics of chatbots trained on deceased people, a topic gaining attention as conversational AI becomes more capable and widely used.
Why now: Growing public interest in grief tech and the ethics of using AI to simulate deceased loved ones
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- Opinion | AI can resurrect the dead. Ask my chatbot mom. · The Washington Post
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