“When a loved one dies, and when someone misses that loved one, misses them so much that…” Maggie shakes it off, channels her sister, and tries a more analytical approach. “A griefbot is an artificial intelligence app that mimics a dead person via their digital footprint—for example, their social media content, emails, maybe videos online or photographs on their phone, whatever. The software then creates a lifelike avatar of the deceased, and a mourner can”—she hesitates—“a mourner can actually converse with it.”
