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dc.contributor.authorKrueger, J
dc.contributor.authorOsler, L
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-15T17:05:43Z
dc.date.issued2022-09-21
dc.date.updated2023-11-14T20:46:53Z
dc.description.abstractGrief is, and has always been, technologically supported. From memorials and shrines to photos and saved voicemail messages, we engage with the dead through the technologies available to us. As our technologies evolve, so does how we grieve. In this paper, we consider the role chatbots might play in our grieving practices. Influ-enced by recent phenomenological work, we begin by thinking about the character of grief. Next, we consider work on developing ‘con-tinuing bonds’ with the dead. We argue that, for some, chatbots may play an important role in establishing these continuing bonds by help-ing us develop what we term ‘habits of intimacy’. We then turn to the ‘ick factor’ some may feel about this prospect, focusing especially on ethical concerns raised by Patrick Stokes and Adam Buben about the risk of replacing our dead with chatbots. We argue that replacement worries are not as pressing as Stokes and Buben suggest. We resist these replacement worries by appealing to the ‘thin reciprocity’, as we refer to it, that such bots offer, as well as the fictionalist stance that we think users of the bots adopt when engaging with them. We conclude by briefly raising some additional concerns and highlighting future research questions.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipAustrian Science Fund (FWF)en_GB
dc.format.extent222-252
dc.identifier.citationVol. 29, No. 9, pp. 222-252en_GB
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.53765/20512201.29.9.222
dc.identifier.grantnumberP 32392-Gen_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/134549
dc.identifierORCID: 0000-0003-0931-1596 (Krueger, Joel)
dc.identifierScopusID: 25925013200 (Krueger, Joel)
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherImprint Academicen_GB
dc.rights.embargoreasonUnder embargo until 21 September 2024 in compliance with publisher policyen_GB
dc.rights© 2022 Imprint Academic. All rights reserved.en_GB
dc.subjectgriefen_GB
dc.subjectchatbotsen_GB
dc.subjectphenomenologyen_GB
dc.subjectcontinuing bondsen_GB
dc.subjectAIen_GB
dc.titleCommuning with the dead online: Chatbots, grief, and continuing bondsen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2023-11-15T17:05:43Z
dc.identifier.issn1355-8250
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Imprint Academic via the DOI in this record en_GB
dc.identifier.journalJournal of Consciousness Studiesen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Consciousness Studies, 29(9)
dc.rights.urihttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserveden_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2022
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rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2022-09-21
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
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refterms.dateFirstOnline2022-09-21


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