Grieving in the Digital World means Never Having to Say Goodbye...but is it Best?
Episode S5 · Ep 19 38 min 29s

Grieving in the Digital World means Never Having to Say Goodbye...but is it Best?

Learn everything from a bot-related way to die in the future to thoughts around having a digital surrogate to a deceased loved one. In the book Love Story, love meant never having to say you’re sorry. Now, in the age of griefbots, death mean you never have to say goodbye. Griefbots are the creation of digital characters that imitate the way people who have died spoke and wrote. While these bots and AI avatars may be beneficial to the grieving process, there’s also a risk that they could keep...

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