Signal First-person journalism on speaking with an AI version of a dead partner

Summary

This signal is a first-person newspaper account of a journalist's conversations with an AI version of their late partner. Sitra cites a New York Times piece from March 2024 about this last, seemingly impossible conversation. The article moves talking with a machine reconstruction of the dead from product promise into lived and reported experience. It shows how people are already testing grief through such systems in their private lives. Sitra places it among signals behind an imagined future column on dying and the afterlife. It speaks directly to the central question of how our relationship with death might change when AI enables conversations with the deceased.