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When your child becomes more attached to an AI ancestor than living family

My teenage son spends hours every day talking to the AI version of his grandfather who died when he was little, and now he's more attached to this digital version than he ever was to any living person in our family.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Digital relationships with the deceased can reshape family dynamics and attachment patterns in ways that challenge the primacy of living connections.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.