Researchers are calling for urgent regulation in advance of 'deadbots', simulations of the deceased that intervene upon the process of mourning itself.
Such tech would be a textbook example of rampant, self-serving techno-solutionism - of profit over care. Rather than such software being the fruit of recommendations from therapists and psychologists, to meet real needs, unregulated tech like this would instead be forced upon the vulnerable by a predatory market.
The idea of an afterlife is like being archived for eternity in a server, which is tellingly called a Cloud, almost as if the techbros want us to make a supernatural association. Spiritualism is more like the deadbots, but with less informative responses.
Either way, the old religious ideas can be transposed into a digital context. I wouldn't be surprised to see new churches based on emerging digital technology.
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