‘It was as if my father were actually texting me’: grief in the age of AI; The Guardian, July 18, 2023

 Aimee Pearcy, The Guardian; ‘It was as if my father were actually texting me’: grief in the age of AI

"For all the advances in medicine and technology in recent centuries, the finality of death has never been in dispute. But over the past few months, there has been a surge in the number of people sharing their stories of using ChatGPT to help say goodbye to loved ones. They raise serious questions about the rights of the deceased, and what it means to die. Is Henle’s AI mother a version of the real person? Do we have the right to prevent AI from approximating our personalities after we’re gone? If the living feel comforted by the words of an AI bot impersonation – is that person in some way still alive?"