Rise of the digital ghost industrial complex

Deathbots, griefbots and ghostbots are AI-generated avatars of the dead: ghosts as a service.

Everyone thought I was crazy three years ago when I predicted in a Fast Company article the “digital ghost industrial complex.” I said that AI would be used to simulate formerly living persons as a service provided by a wide range of companies. A person’s voice, appearance, knowledge and aspects of their personality would be captured, then used by an av…