Marketplace Tech Is grieving with AI a healthy way to cope?
Sep 2, 2025
Elaine Kasket, a psychologist and author focused on the intersection of mental health and technology, discusses the emerging trend of using AI to memorialize loved ones. She explores how technology can help cope with grief but warns against relying too heavily on AI replicas, emphasizing the need for authentic emotional experiences. Kasket highlights the benefits and ethical concerns of integrating AI into grieving processes, encouraging a balance between technological aids and human connections to promote healthy healing.
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Grief Is Individually Experienced
- Grief is highly individual, so what helps one person can harm another.
- Elaine Kasket warns AI can amplify vulnerability during loss rather than universally help.
Commercializing Grief Creates Risk
- AI services may frame grief as a problem to fix and exploit vulnerable people.
- Kasket cautions that treating loss as a pathology invites commercialization and psychological harm.
Use AI To Supplement Social Support
- Use AI only if it supplements missing social support and helps process emotions.
- Consider it when you lack people who can hold you in your grief, but monitor its real impact.
