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The idea of digital life after death is something science fiction has been exploring for ages.

Back in 2013, a chilling episode of the hit show Black Mirror called Be Right Back followed a grieving woman who came to rely on an imperfect AI copy of her dead partner.

More recently, the idea of digital copies of the deceased even made it into a comedy with

Amazon Prime Show upload.

That shift from psychological horror to satire makes sense, because in the decade or so between

the premieres of those shows, the idea of preserving our dead

with digital tools has become way less hypothetical.

There's now a growing industry of what some experts call grief bots, which offer AI-powered

mimics of users' departed loved ones.

But these services come with a whole host of ethical concerns for both the living and the deceased.

My guest today is Katerjana Novich Bashinska.

She's a research fellow at the Leverholm Center for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.

Her research explores how new technologies like these bots are reshaping our understanding of death, loss, and grief.

Thank you so much for coming on to chat today.

Thanks so much for having me. I'm super excited about this.

So how did you first get interested in studying, as you call them, grief bots or dead bots?

I'm always laughing that this topic has found me. It wasn't me who was searching for this particular

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