{"id":29370,"date":"2025-04-01T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/?p=29370"},"modified":"2025-04-03T12:56:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:56:44","slug":"mourning-meets-ai-uwm-student-researcher-explores-grief-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/in-focus\/alumni-student-news\/mourning-meets-ai-uwm-student-researcher-explores-grief-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourning meets AI: 51ÁÔÆæ student researcher explores grief technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When a loved one passes away, we\u2019re often left bereft and longing to see them just one more time \u2013 to gaze upon their face, to hear their voice, to ask advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, thanks to AI, you can. 51ÁÔÆæ student researcher Fridarose Hamad is not so sure that\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c(There) are these things called \u2018grief bots,\u2019 that are replications of people after they pass that aid people in mourning them,\u201d she explained. \u201cWhen we start interrogating it, more and more questions start to arise.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamad is a senior majoring in English and political science. She\u2019s also a prolific student researcher. She began even before she started classes through the <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/undergraduate-research\/programs\/uruwm-summer-research-for-incoming-students\/\">UR@51ÁÔÆæ program<\/a>, and then continued to work under her mentors, Associate Professor of Sociology Celeste Campos-Castillo (now at Michigan State University) and 51ÁÔÆæ Associate Professor of Public Health Policy Linnea Laestadius. Hamad\u2019s previous research focused on how teens interact with technology, but lately, she\u2019s been focused on \u201cgrief tech\u201d \u2013 technology that uses AI to develop profiles of departed loved ones so that the living can talk, text, or interact with their likeness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamad focus on her work is impressive; earlier this year, she was named a <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/undergraduate-research\/programs\/senior-excellence-in-research-awards\/senior-excellence-in-research-awards-2024-2025\/\">51ÁÔÆæ Senior Excellence in Research Award (SERA) winner<\/a> and plans to present her research at conferences like Research in the Rotunda and the National Conference for Undergraduate Research in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"alignright uwm-c-img--right uwm-c-img--caption-gray\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2025\/04\/Fridarose-Ribbon-300x300.webp\" alt=\"A young Middle Eastern woman wearing a black headscarf and a tan vest over a black shirt and pants smiles at the viewer as she holds a purple award ribbon in her hands. She stands next to a green research poster.\" class=\"wp-image-29409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2025\/04\/Fridarose-Ribbon-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2025\/04\/Fridarose-Ribbon.webp 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>English and political science major Fridarose Hamad shows off her &#8220;Outstanding Presentation Award&#8221; ribbon at the 51ÁÔÆæ Undergraduate Research Symposium in 2003. Photo courtesy of Fridarose Hamad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading size-h4\" id=\"h-the-technology-of-grief\"><strong>The technology of grief<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Grief tech existed before the advent of chatbots, but thanks to AI, it is expanding into new avenues and is evolving every day. Some companies allow a person to create a bot that can talk to their loved ones after they pass away. Companies like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myyov.com\/\">You Only Virtual<\/a> specifically offer to construct grief bots for people in mourning. Services like <a href=\"https:\/\/replika.com\/\">Replika<\/a>, which seeks to provide users with an AI companion, have been used to create grief bots as well. One Japanese company even builds virtual reality simulations so that people can interact with their deceased pets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou go onto one of these websites, and you create a chat bot feature so that you can continue to text Grandma after she\u2019s passed,\u201d Hamad said. \u201cYou might upload photos of her, audio clips, any other text messages that you might have from her. You\u2019re uploading all of this content to get the fullest picture of Grandma possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does this technology actually help the grieving process? It\u2019s hard to say. The field is so new that researchers have only begun to look into grief tech, and what research exists uses a patchwork of vocabulary as each researcher comes up with their own definitions to describe the same functions and features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s why Hamad\u2019s work is important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy goal with this project became to create some continuity. Let\u2019s create some set definitions. Let\u2019s create the framework that we can continue to dissect this with,\u201d she said. \u201cI read about 40 or 50 papers with just completely different language all describing the same things. And I know that because all of them reference the same episode of \u2018Black Mirror\u2019 or they\u2019ll reference the same companies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, Hamad draws a distinction between \u201cghost bots\u201d \u2013 AI meant to mimic a deceased person like Napoleon or Queen Elizabeth II \u2013 and \u201cgrief bots\u201d \u2013 AI meant to mimic a deceased person whom another person is mourning \u2013 whereas other researchers had been using the terms interchangeably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamad is working on a paper that she hopes will give researchers a common vocabulary to draw from as they explore questions surrounding the psychological, technical, and ethical aspects of grief bots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading size-h4\" id=\"h-grief-tech-raises-questions\"><strong>Grief tech raises questions<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>And it\u2019s important to study grief tech because, like many aspects of AI, the technology is so new that there are no policies in place to govern its use. And there are a <em>lot <\/em>of questions about its use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re uploading a lot of personal information onto these sites. What if the site gets hacked?\u201d Hamad pointed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But more than data safety is the issue of personal privacy and the ethical concerns that are raised as a result, she added. The person who is deceased can\u2019t give consent for their likeness to be used for a chatbot. Would they have wanted their personality uploaded online? What if a teenager\u2019s friend passes away and they create a grief bot to help them cope? Is that fair to the parents of the deceased teen? What happens when a person is ready to move on? Is it okay to delete the grief bot, or would it be akin to \u2018killing\u2019 their loved one? What are the responsibilities of grief tech companies? What if the person someone is grieving is an ex-partner from a relationship who is still alive? Is it ethical to make a bot based on their personality to work through the breakup?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese are only some of the issues, but I think it hints at the bigger questions that we have around what this looks like and how it functions,\u201d Hamad said. \u201cBefore we start regulating it, there needs to be more work done in understanding the full scope of (grief tech).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She hopes that she can impress that message upon lawmakers when she presents her work at Research in the Rotunda in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, Hamad stresses that grief is a natural part of being human. Perhaps grief bots can help people give people a sense of closure, or perhaps it hinders their healing process by preventing them from processing a new normal. Either way, grief tech is another example of how technology is influencing our lives \u2013 and our deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Sarah Vickery, College of Letters &amp; Science<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a loved one passes away, we\u2019re often left bereft and longing to see them just one more time \u2013 to gaze upon their face, to hear their voice, to ask advice. 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