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AI can keep you alive forever. Should it?

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:19:26
Publish Date: 2025-09-15 07:00:00
Description: The AI digital afterlife industry is here. But can legal and ethical frameworks keep us safe from it?

Companies are already popping up to create artificial life-like renderings of your loved ones. So-called "deadbots" can mimic speech patterns and unique facialo gestures, and they can purportedly help people cope with grief. But they are also ripe for commercialization. What's stopping companies from using these so-called AI deadbots from selling you products?

This isĀ AI + U. Each Monday this month, Brittany is exploring how you are already seeing the impacts of AI in your daily life. In this episode Brittany is joined by NPR's culture correspondent Chloe Veltman to get into the rise of of the AI digital afterlife industry.

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