“Memorial bots — even the primitive ones that are possible using today’s technology — seemed both inevitable and dangerous. “It’s definitely the future — I’m always for the future,” she said. “But is it really what’s beneficial for us? Is it letting go, by forcing you to actually feel everything? Or is it just having a dead person in your attic? Where is the line? Where are we? It screws with your brain.””

When her best friend died, she used artificial intelligence to keep talking to him
https://www.theverge.com/a/luka-artificial-intelligence-memorial-roman-mazurenko-bot
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