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Postmodern Realities Podcast Episode 481: Resurrecting the Dead with AI? Digital Necromancy and the Christian

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A company creates AI avatars of deceased loved ones, allowing a grandson to ask his dead grandmother for advice.
This episode features a conversation with Dr. Douglas Grothuis about AI avatars of deceased loved ones, termed digital necromancy. They discuss its ethical implications, biblical prohibitions against consulting the dead, and how such technology might hinder healthy grieving from a Christian perspective.

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A sober Christian look at AI avatars, grief, and the pull of artificial comfort.

Postmodern Realities Podcast treats AI avatars of deceased loved ones as a grave Christian question, not a novelty. Melanie Cogdill and Dr. Douglas Grothuis keep the focus on grief, lament, and how believers might respond when artificial comfort starts to imitate memory.

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When grief meets AI, you need a Christian way to think before you click.

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