China's Booming Industry of AI-Resurrecting the Dead Is Causing a New Kind of Grief

A growing industry in China offers to 'resurrect' deceased relatives as AI chatbots and video avatars, trained on photos, videos, and old messages. Families pay hundreds of dollars to talk to moving, speaking digital replicas of their dead parents or children. Companies like Super Brain and Silicon Intelligence offer the service. Psychologists warn that digital resurrection may prevent healthy grieving. One video of a man talking to his deceased mother went viral with millions of views and sparked intense ethical debate.