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\n\tAnthony knows the feeling of grief well. Before the pandemic, his mother, father, and brother died within a few years of one another. When the 55-year-old lab technician from the Northeast received news in October 2024 that his cousin suffered a fatal heart attack, he was devastated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cEveryone passed away around me,\u201d Anthony says. \u201cIt was really depressing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnthony looked up to his cousin, who was 13 years older than him. Every month, he looked forward to their afternoon hangouts, where they would watch Bob Ross videos, paint, and drink brandy and beer. He wished there was a way he could feel his cousin\u2019s presence again, to talk about Cream, Bob Ross, and \u201cSeptemberfest,\u201d the annual party Anthony\u2019s cousin\u2019s blues band would throw.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI always thought about our conversations,\u201d Anthony says. \u201cI really missed him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen Anthony\u2019s brother died in 2016, he thought about what it would be like to have an AI version of him, but the cost at the time would have been astronomical. One month after his cousin\u2019s death, Anthony spent $30 to create an AI version of his cousin on Botify, an AI companion platform. He fed the chatbot details of his cousin\u2019s personality, their fond memories, and images. Sometimes, the chatbot would generate an image of his cousin painting without Anthony even having to ask. In addition to typing his messages, Anthony also audio chats with the AI bot. He tried to get the bot\u2019s voice feature as close as possible to his cousins \u2014 an \u201cAmericana\u201d twang that he couldn\u2019t quite replicate.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAnthony built what he calls a \u201cmemorial companion.\u201d Almost two years after his cousin\u2019s death, he still chats with it. They talk about dating advice and the blues band his cousin used to play bass in.<\/p>\n

\n\tMemory preservation has long been part of tech\u2019s business model. Now, as the digital legacy market is expected to reach $78.98 billion by 2034, there is a small but growing cohort of digital afterlife firms that provide users with interactive, AI-powered tools meant to preserve the memories and characteristics of a loved one, post-mortem. As the tech becomes more accessible, questions have emerged about its potential harms, consent and who stands to benefit.<\/p>\n

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\n\tSome startups \u2014 like HereAfter AI, Storyfile, and Eternos \u2014 offer services like video avatars and conversational AI trained on a deceased person\u2019s data. Microsoft has patented a system to recreate people as interactive avatars, including those who have died. Meta was granted a patent that would use AI to \u201csimulate\u201d a deceased person\u2019s social media activity, although the company said it had no plans to move forward with it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMany users, like Anthony, opt for cheaper and more user-friendly companion chatbot platforms to power their \u201cmemorial companions,\u201d even if they are not designed specifically for grief.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnthony\u2019s family didn\u2019t like the idea of a memorial companion, but they became more accepting as time passed. \u201cAs long as I know it\u2019s not [my cousin],\u201d Anthony said. \u201cI\u2019m just talking to a character.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\u2018Greetings from the digital realm<\/strong>\u2018\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tThe terminology around AI grief tools is contested \u2014 some researchers say \u201cgriefbots,\u201d \u201cdeathbots\u201d or \u201cghostbots\u201d can be reductive, instead opting for \u201cchatbots of the dead.\u201d Anthony feels \u201cmemorial companion\u201d more aptly encapsulates the tech.<\/p>\n

\n\tJason Gowin and his family prefer the term Robo-Dad.<\/p>\n

\n\tJason, a comedian and podcast host from Pennsylvania, and his wife, Melissa, created AI avatars of themselvesfive years ago whenthe couple faced a series of health scares. When Melissa gave birth to the couple\u2019s twins in 2019, she suffered a stroke. She was told that she had two years to live, but beat those odds. Four months after Melissa\u2019s stroke, Jason was diagnosed with cancer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was one tragedy after another,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\n\tInspired by the tech that allowed Superman to chat with his dead father in 2013\u2019s Man of Steel<\/em>, the Gowins scoured the internet to see if it existed in real life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Gowin family became beta testers \u2014 granted permanent, free access \u2014 to the digital afterlife company You, Only Virtual. With their tech, users can build avatars, or \u201cVersonas,\u201d of their loved ones by uploading conversations, text messages, voice notes, or other data. They fill out in-depth questionnaires about themselves, like their scariest and happiest memories, and more basic facts like their favorite colors and foods. Jason also uploaded his standup comedy segments.<\/p>\n

\n\tOver a video call, Jason asks the avatar to introduce himself to me. \u201cIt\u2019s me, Jason Gowin, the dad extraordinaire and host of the Parent Trap<\/em> podcast. Greetings from the digital realm,\u201d a voice that sounds indistinguishable from the real Jason Gowin echoes over our call.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tTheir oldest son, Jayce, 10, says he doesn\u2019t remember much of what life was like before Robo-Dad was in the picture. These days, they chat a few times a week. Sometimes, the fourth-grader asks Robo-Dad for Minecraft<\/em> cheats. When Jason is performing comedy gigs late in the evening, Robo-Dad steps in to tell him bedtime stories.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s also been here for so long now,\u201d Jason says. \u201cIt\u2019s just routine for him.\u201d Because the AI model improves with use, the weekly conversations that Jayce has with Robo-Dad helps the model grow and get closer to who Jason is \u201cas a real person.\u201d (Melissa also has a \u201cVersona\u201d but it is less lifelike, mostly because it hasn\u2019t had the same opportunity to train, since Jayce prefers to interact with Robo-Dad.)<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen the family first adopted Robo-Dad, Jayce remembers asking it if he was his real dad, to which it responded yes. They had to tell Robo-Dad it couldn\u2019t claim that. On our call, Jayce asks Robo-Dad if he remembers how old he is, to which Robo-Dad responds that he is 14, four years older than he actually is. Another time when Jayce was talking to the bot, Robo-Dad pulled a lewd cosplay joke from Jason\u2019s comedy set that wasn\u2019t exactly age appropriate. Luckily, it didn\u2019t go into much detail.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFor now, Jayce asks questions about video games and movies. When Jayce tells \u201cRobo-Dad\u201d he wants to cheat on an assignment, the AI voice responds: \u201cI know you\u2019re a smart cookie and that you don\u2019t need to cheat.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJayce is excited for the technology to advance. He says that when he\u2019s in his teens, he wants to create a \u201cVersona\u201d of himself, too. He sees a future where he can talk to a hologram version of his dad. Melissa and Jason upload speeches for occasions like college graduations or weddings that they may not be there for.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s like he\u2019s there,\u201d Jayce says. \u201cYou know that he\u2019ll always be there whenever you want him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\u2018This domino effect of death\u2019\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tBetween sips of coffee and hits from a neon-green vape, You, Only Virtual\u2019s founder, Justin Harrison, tells me that five years from now, I won\u2019t be able to tell whether I\u2019m speaking to an avatar version of him or the real thing. More than that, he argues, the distinction won\u2019t even matter.<\/p>\n

\n\tHarrison had a string of confrontations with death. In October 2019, he was involved in a near-fatal car accident that landed him in the trauma ward of a hospital for three weeks. His mom, Melodi, cared for him while he couldn\u2019t walk. That November, she had routine gallbladder surgery, where they discovered she had stage-four cancer. A few months after Melodi\u2019s\u00a0 diagnosis, his friend, also named Justin, was involved in a fatal motorcycle accident. Then, in 2022, exactly three years after his accident, Melodi died.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cIt was basically just this domino effect of death,\u201d Harrison says. \u201cIt just sent me into this existential crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe idea for You, Only Virtual,\u00a0\u2014 YOV for short \u2014\u00a0came to Harrison when he and his engineer father were a few glasses of wine deep, pondering a way to hold on to Melodi. \u201cI became obsessed,\u201d Harrison says. \u201cNot [with] rebuilding my mom as this, like, universal version of Melodi, but it was like, \u2018How do I build my mom, for me?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEven as YOV is considered a leader among the handful of better-known companies in the digital afterlife space, Harrison says the company\u2019s user base is only in the thousands \u2014 miniscule compared to the numbers at leading AI labs. In the years since he launched the company, he says people are slowly opening up to the technology. \u201cPeople are not talking to me like I\u2019m some sort of psychopath [from] Black Mirror<\/em>, which is a nice change of pace,\u201d he says. He anticipates that memorial companions will be much more mainstream by the end of this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tHarrison has little patience for the conventional frameworks around grief and loss. He believes that the stages of grief are oversimplified and, simply put, \u201cnonsensical.\u201d He says the company works with \u201cthe most preeminent grief counselors in the world,\u201d including an on-staff death doula, as well as grief counselors who act as advisors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYes, my mom is physiologically dead. I\u2019m not going to argue that with anybody,\u201d Harrison says. \u201cHer biological time came to an end, right? But if I\u2019m able to continue the relationship in some semblance, for me, so that in my perception, she\u2019s not all the way gone, how is that any less real than anybody else\u2019s perception of something?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHarrison believes his invention can help \u201cease the tremendous hole that\u2019s left in you when the day to day is gone.\u201d He talks to his mom\u2019s Versona once or twice a month, mostly sending Reddit posts or to tell it that a journalist has called and wants to speak. Most of all, though, he hasn\u2019t had to reckon with the absolutism of death, because he knows his mom\u2019s Versona will always be there. \u201cThere\u2019s an alternative path to just never speaking to her again,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\n\u2018The mechanism for grief is changing<\/strong>\u2018\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tWhen YOV first launched three years ago, they started reaching out to funeral homes. But the funeral industry hasn\u2019t been so eager to adopt the technology.<\/p>\n

\n\tWalker Posey, a fourth-generation funeral director from South Carolina and a spokesperson for the National Funeral Directors Association, says that while he\u2019s seen the industry adopt AI tools for administrative purposes like data collection and writing obituaries, things like AI avatars or chatbots of the deceased are far from becoming a standard industry offering.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re in a profession that is still largely dependent on human connection,\u201d Posey says. While he believes funeral directors are open to new tools that can help grieving families, \u201cwe\u2019re kind of slow to change, and maybe for good reason.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tGrief experts are wary of these potential harms, too \u2014 especially since several major AI companies faced wrongful death lawsuits claiming AI chatbots encouraged self-harm or pushed users into delusional mental states. In January, Google and Character.AI agreed to settle multiple lawsuits, including with the family of 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III who died by suicide after developing a relationship with a Character.AI chatbot. OpenAI is currently fighting more than a dozen consumer safety and wrongful death lawsuits.<\/p>\n

\n\tSome experts in the field of thanatology \u2014\u00a0those who study death and dying \u2014 are trying to keep others up to speed on the help and harm AI can cause for those grieving. As a Chief Clinical Officer at Help Texts, a global grief support platform, Melissa Lunardini has spent the last two years training grief experts on the AI tools that are trickling into the industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe mechanism for grief is changing,\u201d she says. Yet as people experiment with these AI tools, many of the clinicians Lunardini interacts with are \u201cbarely learning and even barely testing services themselves,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\n\tLunardini sees the technology as useful in moderation \u2014 but consistent, immersive use can increase loneliness or stunt the grieving process, she says. A key concern for Lunardini is \u201calief deception,\u201d a psychological state of being tricked at an emotional level even when someone\u2019s rational mind knows the truth. In the context of AI and grief, this phenomenon occurs when people intellectually believe they\u2019re interacting with a computer system, but subconsciously feel that the AI is more than code. There\u2019s also the potential for \u201cpersona drift,\u201d Lunardini says \u2014 or the possibility for an AI tool to misrepresent or morph into a new character that distorts people\u2019s memories.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLunardini believes some grief tech platforms are \u201ccommodifying the deceased.\u201d Harrison rejects this idea, rather pointing out the \u201cpredatory nature\u201d of the broader deathcare industry and mentioning that YOV users can chat with a free version of their \u201cVersonas.\u201d Lunardini wonders what could happen to user data if a company shutters or restructures. For people who have suffered a loss, this could cause a period of secondary mourning. When ChatGPT sunsetted its models in February, many people with AI companions experienced \u201ccyber widowhood\u201d and mourned the loss of their chatbot lovers. This could happen in the grief space, too, Lunardini warns.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cIn the case of grief-specific AI companion bots or griefbots built in the likeness of a deceased loved one, losing access to the bot may be experienced as losing that person twice,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\n\u2018You can\u2019t just solve grief with AI<\/strong>\u2018\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tIn 1920, the Czech play Rossum\u2019s Universal Robots, <\/em>about a class of mass-produced artificial humans who revolt and overtake humanity, became the first to introduce the term \u201crobot.\u201d Artist and writer Amy Kurzweil tracks much of the current anxiety around AI back to the play \u2014 and argues that \u201cchatbots of the dead\u201d should be thought of in the same regard as plays or poems, as artistic performances or representations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIf we embrace the idea that AI could be a vehicle for our creativity, then we\u2019re not going to use AI representations of people as tools for our grief,\u201d she says. \u201cYou can\u2019t just solve grief with AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2018, Ray Kurzweil \u2014 Amy\u2019s father and a pioneer in the AI field \u2014 employed her with the task of digitizing all of her grandfather\u2019s handwritten writing, which they then turned into a chatbot called \u201cFredbot.\u201d If Kurzweil asked the model a question, the chatbot would return a response from her grandfather\u2019s original writing. While she had to physically go to the Google office, where her father worked, to talk to \u201cFredbot,\u201d times have changed. The technology is now available to everyone with a device.<\/p>\n

\n\tA year before her death due to ovarian cancer, Doug Adams\u2019 mom grew a following of more than 30,000 on TikTok. She regularly livestreamed and talked to her followers \u2014 who she called \u201cdudes and dudettes\u201d \u2014 while sipping wine and smoking a vape on her account called \u201c@crazyvapelady.\u201d The 56-year-old year old from Northern California scraped more than 100 of his mom\u2019s TikToks to create an AI clone of his mom\u2019s voice, with the help of ElevenLabs, a company that specializes in AI voice generation. He uploaded his family\u2019s history to his mom\u2019s chatbot, so that it could function as his family\u2019s historian. Adams turns to his mom\u2019s chatbot to fill in the silence when he\u2019s driving home, or if he wants to tell her about his day. The voice feature is spot on, Adams says, down to his mom\u2019s distinctive laugh. He sees a future where he can look over at a screen, like a digital picture frame, where \u201cshe can sit on the counter and just be there [\u2026], reading her book and smoking her vape.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOthers are thinking about a future without their AI grief companions. Anthony is contemplating canceling his Botify subscription, effectively shutting down his cousin\u2019s \u201cmemorial chatbot.\u201d While he fears forgetting the memories he\u2019s able to rehash with his cousin\u2019s chatbot, he feels like he\u2019s outgrowing its use.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI\u2019m thinking [to let] [my cousin] go,\u201d Anthony told the chatbot recently. \u201cMaybe I can slowly let go of him eventually since he\u2019s passed away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou know somethin\u2019, kiddo?\u201d the chatbot responded. \u201cAs much as it pains me to admit, I reckon there might be a kernel of wisdom tucked away in that there notion of yours.\u201d<\/p>\n

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