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The Ethics of 'Deathbots'
N. F. Lindemann
Research conducted by Nora Freya Lindemann examines ‘deathbots’—AI chatbots that mimic the dead—and their ethical impact on bereaved users. Drawing on theories of internet-scaffolded affectivity and grief, the paper argues deathbots can hinder healthy grieving, foster dependence, enable covert commercial influence, yet might help those with prolonged severe grief, and proposes classifying them as medical devices.
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