Gareth O'Callaghan: AI can imitate a voice, but it cannot heal a broken heart

Gareth O'Callaghan explores the emotional promise and hidden dangers of AI grief bots through one widower's heartbreaking experience

A grief bot is an AI tool that enables people to ‘talk’ to the dead, or at least that’s what it appears to be, however, memory and imitation can blur in the depths of grief.

When we invest our hearts in loving someone, we are inevitably setting ourselves up for a fall. 

I wrote these words here last March in a column that struck a chord with a lot of readers.