{"id":228521,"date":"2026-01-07T13:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/should-ai-be-allowed-to-resurrect-the-dead"},"modified":"2026-01-07T13:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:08:27","slug":"should-ai-be-allowed-to-resurrect-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/should-ai-be-allowed-to-resurrect-the-dead","title":{"rendered":"Should AI be allowed to resurrect the dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5udOx8-QxtE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Griefbots fundamentally change the process of mourning.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Xingye, the platform on which Roro created her late mother\u2019s chatbot, is one of the key prompts for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/12\/29\/china-ai-chatbot-rules-emotional-influence-suicide-gambling-zai-minimax-talkie-xingye-zhipu.html\">proposed new regulations<\/a> from China\u2019s Cyberspace Administration, the national internet content regulator and censor, which seek to reduce the potential emotional harm of \u201chuman-like interactive AI services\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>What does digital resurrection do to grief?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Deathbots fundamentally change the process of mourning because, unlike seeing old letters or photos of the deceased, interacting with generative AI can introduce new and unexpected elements into the grieving process. For Roro, creating and interacting with an AI version of her mother felt surprisingly therapeutic, allowing her to articulate feelings she never voiced and achieve a sense of closure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Griefbots fundamentally change the process of mourning. Xingye, the platform on which Roro created her late mother\u2019s chatbot, is one of the key prompts for proposed new regulations from China\u2019s Cyberspace Administration, the national internet content regulator and censor, which seek to reduce the potential emotional harm of \u201chuman-like interactive AI services\u201d What does digital [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}