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When teenagers want to maintain romantic relationships with deceased peers through AI

My son's AI personality has been talking to his friends for months since he died, and now one of them is asking it to prom and I don't know how to handle this without hurting a grieving teenager.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Digital immortality complicates adolescent grief and development when romantic attachments persist beyond death through artificial means.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with AI-preserved personalities and digital immortality ethics?”

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