HereAfter AI grew out of a chatbot that Mr. Vlahos created of his father before his death from lung cancer in 2017. Mr. Vlahos, a conversational A.I. specialist and journalist who has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, wrote about the experience for Wired and soon began hearing from people asking if he could make them a mombot, a spousebot and so on.
"I was not thinking of it in any commercialized way," Mr. Vlahos said. "And then it became blindly obvious: This should be a business."
Do you think god stays in heaven because he, too, is afraid of what he has created?
This is just the bleakest shit ever. Faux-necromancy as a business model.