The digital seance: Grief tech and ghostbots
Haunted algorithms: AI in modern ghost hunting
Edison's lost dream: The history of spirit machines
Ancestors in the machine: Global views on digital afterlife
YOUR GOAL
Master of Calling the beyond on an AI spirit phone
007skaty The psychological impact of using artificial intelligence to simulate deceased people.
007skaty Grief Tech and Ghostbots
I send a message through the quiet blue, An algorithm learns to speak like you.
007skaty AI griefbots risk creating unhealthy emotional dependencies on machines that cannot feel, blurring the line between healthy remembrance
007skaty A color-coded technical diagram maps the digital reconstruction of a human voice.
007skaty Decode digital static to learn how AI translates messages from the spirit world.
Griefbot origins: In 2015, developer Eugenia Kuyda built one of the first griefbots by training an AI on thousands of text messages from her late friend, Roman Mazurenko.
An artificial intelligence chatbot that replicates the personality, voice, and text style of a deceased person. In 2020, Joshua Barbeau used the Project December platform to create a ghostbot of his deceased fiancée.
According to psychologist Dr. Sarika Boora, what stage of grief can digital clones prolong?
What is the main ethical concern surrounding the creation of digital replicas of deceased people?
Which university conducted a 2026 study on how people interact with AI "griefbots"?
What term do researchers use to describe AI agents trained on a deceased person's data?
What did the 2026 University of Colorado study reveal about user preferences for AI ghosts?