{"id":208236,"date":"2024-02-26T10:11:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T10:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/26\/resurrecting-loved-ones-as-ai-ghosts-could-harm-your-mental-health\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:34","slug":"resurrecting-loved-ones-as-ai-ghosts-could-harm-your-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/26\/resurrecting-loved-ones-as-ai-ghosts-could-harm-your-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Resurrecting loved ones as AI &#8216;ghosts&#8217; could harm your mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/22141819\/SEI_192720238.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/22141819\/SEI_192720238.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/22141819\/SEI_192720238.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/22141819\/SEI_192720238.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/22141819\/SEI_192720238.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/22141819\/SEI_192720238.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/22141819\/SEI_192720238.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/22141819\/SEI_192720238.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/22141819\/SEI_192720238.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/22141819\/SEI_192720238.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/22141819\/SEI_192720238.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image size-full wp-image-2418620 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" data-credit=\"Yuichiro Chino\/Moment RF\/Getty Images\" data-caption=\"Could your loved one be reborn as an AI?\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Could your loved one be reborn as an AI?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Yuichiro Chino\/Moment RF\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Resurrecting deceased loved ones using artificial intelligence could harm mental health, create dependence on the technology and even spur a new religion, researchers have warned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2360135-how-ai-chatbots-in-search-engines-will-completely-change-the-internet\/\">AI chatbots<\/a> trained on text from the internet have become ever more capable and convincing in recent years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/cmci\/people\/information-science\/jed-brubaker\">Jed Brubaker<\/a> at the University of Colorado Boulder and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/meredithringelmorris\/\">Meredith Morris<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article-topic\/deepmind\/\">Google DeepMind<\/a> say the possibility of training such an AI solely on the archived emails, text messages and other writings from a single person, to create\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2416079-resurrecting-loved-ones-as-ai-ghosts-could-harm-your-mental-health\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Could your loved one be reborn as an AI? 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