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Sep 2, 2025

Is grieving with AI a healthy way to cope?

Psychologist Elaine Kasket explains how AI could help or hurt as we grieve the loss of a loved one.

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More and more people are using generative AI to “resurrect” deceased loved ones. There are tools that can turn an old photograph into a short animation or create entire "AI clones" trained on old audio, video or written diaries.

These technological advancements are taking memorializing the dead to a whole new level, but is it healthy?

Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to psychologist Elaine Kasket, who specializes in mental health issues and technology, for some answers.

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