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news Scmp World 2026-04-12

China family creates AI clone to comfort bereaved elderly mother

Following the death of her only son in a car accident, a family in China commissioned an AI team to create a digital replica. This AI can now chat online with the elderly mother, helping her cope with the profound loss.


After a man in China was killed in a road accident last year, his family hired an artificial intelligence (AI) technology team to create a digital version of him to comfort his elderly mother. The AI creation is able to chat with his octogenarian mother online and help her live with the reality of her only child’s death. The incident was exposed by the AI team leader Zhang Zewei, who is based in eastern Jiangsu province, according to the media outlet Litchi News. The family, who live in Shandong...

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