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Researchers say AI could lead to new religions as the technology may soon be able to mimic people who have passed away.

One researcher says AI could be trained with archived emails, text messages, and other writings from a single person to create a replica of them after death. This attachment could become more extreme and even lead to deification, with the mourner seeing them as an angel or God.

Jed Brubaker, University of Colorado Boulder: “I think some people might see these as gods. I don’t think most people will. You’ll have a group of people who find them just weird and creepy.”

Another researcher: “It’s really worrying that these new tools might be marketed to people who are in a very vulnerable state.”