Ep. 338: COMMON GROUND: AI Grief Bots - Solving Grief or Distorting it?

This is the first of a series of episodes that feature opposing sides of a hot topic. Today it’s the a tech entrepreneur who founded a grief bot service vs a cyberpsychologist specializing in the ethics of death & the digital. We ask, is this healing or avoidance? Can the dead consent to this? What is the potential for harm? John Kammer is the founder of Guardian A[I]ngels, a subscription service that sends you journal prompts in the voice of your deceased loved one. &...