Author: Malavika Madgula
Malavika Madgula is a writer and coffee lover from Mumbai, India, with a post-graduate degree in finance and an interest in the world. She can usually be found reading dystopian fiction cover to cover. Currently, she works as a travel content writer and hopes to write her own dystopian novel one day.
While an AI avatar could be a great way to memorialize someone, it could also prevent people from completing the grieving process. Artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way, as have the industries that make money off death, as grisly as it sounds. And technopreneurs have managed to make space for themselves by blending the two in the form of grief tech and ghostbots. It’s officially the end of mourning as we know it. For as long as humans have been around, we’ve fought against the inevitability of death. AI is finally intersecting with the highest and deepest human…