Sixteen people who'd lost someone close to them sat down for Zoom sessions and talked to AI chatbots built from details about their deceased loved ones.

Every single individual said they would do it again. This is according to a new study from the University of Colorado Boulder that is published in the Proceedings of the 2026 Designing Interactive Systems Conference, giving the first in-depth insight into the reality of the experience of something known as "generative ghosts".

The research was led by Jack Manning, a PhD candidate in information science, and Jed........

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