Future of Memory and Mourning in AI
Two company types serve bereaved: startups and platforms using subscriptions, freemium, and partnerships.
Phillip Willett's AI voice clone experiment sparked family discussions but felt artificial.
Ethicists caution new digital afterlife services lack oversight and pose risks to vulnerable users.
Future tensions arise between archival and generative memory, with systems erasing forgetting's role in mourning.
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