Usually, remembering a close friend or an ex who's died will make me smile, but sometimes the thought of their death will pick me up and throw me against a wall and make me want to vomit. Yes, it hurts, and I may wish that feeling would go away, but gods help me if it ever does.
Anyone who says they want to see the “complete and total eradication of grief” vastly overrates what bots will be able to do but also speaks to how tech solutionists misunderstand what it means to exist in the world. A hollow amalgam of a loved one’s utterances can never replace what is lost.
Tech entrepreneur Justin Harrison is on a mission to fundamentally change how we experience loss, using artificial intelligence to recreate the essence of dead loved ones from their digital footprint....