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AI and All Souls Day

Nathan Mladin speaks on BBC Radio Ulster’s Everyday Ethics on AI and the Afterlife. 02/11/2025

Grief bots and avatars promise to preserve our loved ones from beyond the grave.

Dr Nathan Mladin appears alongside Dr Elaine Storkey and Professor Victoria Haneman discussing the ethical concerns of grief–tech. Nathan draws upon his report AI and the Afterlife.

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Nathan Mladin

Nathan Mladin

Nathan joined Theos in 2016. He holds a PhD in Systematic Theology from Queen’s University Belfast and is the author of several publications, including the Theos reports Data and Dignity: Why Privacy Matters in the Digital Age, Religious London: Faith in a Global City (with Paul Bickley), and ‘Forgive Us Our Debts’: lending and borrowing as if relationships matter (with Barbara Ridpath).

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Posted 2 November 2025

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