AI 'Ghosts' Offer New Opportunities for Conversations with Deceased Loved Ones, Study Reveals

AI 'Ghosts' Offer New Opportunities for Conversations with Deceased Loved Ones, Study Reveals

A recent study documented a participant using an AI model to simulate a conversation with her late grandmother. According to her report, the experience offered a sense of closure that she had not experienced before. This interaction was one of sixteen documented in a study published in the Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. The research provides some of the first empirical data on how individuals respond to the…