{"id":182089,"date":"2023-12-03T19:29:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T19:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/?p=182089"},"modified":"2023-12-03T19:29:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T19:29:07","slug":"fears-over-ai-grief-tech-that-brings-family-back-from-dead-as-holograms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/fears-over-ai-grief-tech-that-brings-family-back-from-dead-as-holograms\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears over AI ‘grief tech’ that brings family back from dead as holograms"},"content":{"rendered":"
Artificial intelligence can raise loved ones from the dead by turning them into holograms – prompting fears mourners may never properly come to terms with their grief.<\/p>\n
Tech giants claim using such bots to keep memories of dead folk alive helps surviving partners, relatives and pals cope. AI can learn from videos, photos, social media posts and text messages to accurately recreate a version of a loved one.<\/p>\n
It ranges from simple chatbots to sophisticated avatars that imitate the look and sound of the deceased. Experts predict such 'grief tech\u2019 is about to take the world by storm. But some fear the technology could prove harmful. They fear to maximise profits tech companies will make their offerings as 'addictive\u2019 as possible so grieving relatives are charged repeatedly.<\/p>\n
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And they warn the realism of the avatars may make it harder to come to terms with losses. Suzy Turner Jones, of charity Grief Encounter, said: \u201cIs this going to prolong despair or create comfort?<\/p>\n
\u201cIs it going to be enabling in terms of understanding following someone\u2019s death, or cause confusion? At Grief Encounter we ensure that after the death of someone close, language, for example, is clear and concise – that the person is no longer alive and not coming back.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAI presents a new set of challenges that could affect this. Memories are something to be treasured and perhaps not to be re-invented in such a visceral way.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Psychologist Mary-Frances O\u2019Connor said grief tech may reinforce and prolong an attachment to the dead. \u201cIt\u2019s one thing to have a photograph and to clearly understand that was the past,\u2019\u2019 she told the New Scientist. "It\u2019s another thing to have an avatar or a hologram or a chatbot that appears to be interacting with you in the present moment. You feel like you\u2019re trying to get closer to that relationship but the bot is not the thing that you want".<\/p>\n
Grandmother Marina Smith\u2019s young relatives still talk to her via videolink as she reclines in her comfy armchair in her Nottinghamshire home. The 87-year-old died several weeks ago, but pre-recorded videos have been used to keep her memory alive.<\/p>\n
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An AI interface instantly selects appropriate answers based on her relatives\u2019 questions. Other dead folk have re-appeared as talking, moving holograms.<\/p>\n
Users of the app HereAfter AI are encouraged by a virtual interviewer to record themselves talking about different aspects of their lives. Those recordings are organised to create a Life Story Avatar – a representation of the user that lives on in digital form which can respond to questions.<\/p>\n
Packages, linked to usage, cost up to \u00a36.40 a month. Marina\u2019s son Stephen, who last year filmed her over a two-day period answering more than 100 questions, said her reappearance on what he calls a 'conversational AI video\u2019 allowed her to appear at her own funeral.<\/p>\n
When her grandchildren later asked to talk to her they were learning things about her that they didn\u2019t think to ask when she was still alive. \u201cThis is not a tool designed for death, it is a tool designed to document life, much like you would with a photograph album,\u2019\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n
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