Theos report ‘AI and the Afterlife’ was quoted in The Guardian. 10/08/2025
Harriet Sherwood references Theos report AI and the Afterlife in Sunday Read for the Guardian.
There is also a risk of creating a dependency in the living person, said Nathan Mladin, the author of AI and the Afterlife, a Theos report published last year. “Digital necromancy is a deceptive experience. You think you’re talking to a person when you’re actually talking to a machine. Bereaved people can become dependent on a bot, rather than accepting and healing.”
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