There's already a company that will turn your dying relatives into perverse AI homunculi for $50K

There's been plenty of controversy over AI deep fake videos and the digital necromancy of dead or aged actors (mostly in Star Wars), but how about taking that one step further? The company DeepBrain AI will collect audio and visual recordings of a loved one and then create an interactive AI version of them for you to speak with once they've passed.

A recent story from the BBC highlights some new players in "death tech," or the niche of technology startups offering services related to grief and mortality.