Talking with AI ghosts of loved ones
Podcast: Marketplace All-in-OnePublished On: Mon Oct 12 2026
Description: There's a growing market for AI models that promise to recreate the experience of interacting with a lost loved one. They're sometimes called generative ghosts, and they're the topic for today's “Uncanny AI,” our series about sometimes-unsettling experiences with this technology.Jack Manning, a Ph.D. candidate studying information science at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been looking into this. He recently published a study on how people experience talking to generative ghosts.More on this:“Designing Conversations with the Dead: How People Engage with Generative Ghosts” from Association for Computing Machinery“When AI is used to immortalize the dead, what are the ethical implications?” from Marketplace Tech
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