{
  "id": 988847,
  "title": "How AI grief bots are allowing people to commune with the dead",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/how-ai-grief-bots-are-allowing-people-to-commune-with-the-dead",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-15T08:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBC News",
    "slug": "cbc-news",
    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ai-grief-bots-ghosts-deceased-loved-ones-9.7306354"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "It may seem like something ripped directly from an episode of Black Mirror, but generative AI and large language models are now being used to conjure up the dead, using the massive digital footprints many of us leave behind when we die.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}