# Griefbot **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / AI / Bereavement **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Academic and policy-facing term ## Definition A **Griefbot** is a conversational or embodied AI designed to simulate interaction with a deceased person for bereavement, memory, companionship, or memorial purposes. ## Continuity Significance Griefbots make consent, dignity, family interests, commercial exploitation, and termination practices concrete before full continuity technology exists. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Researchers and regulators increasingly discuss governance for AI simulations of the dead. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Therapeutic or memorial utility does not establish identity continuity. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Deadbot|Deadbot]] · [[wiki/Posthumous Avatar|Posthumous Avatar]] · [[wiki/Digital Replica|Digital Replica]] · [[wiki/Posthumous Dignity|Posthumous Dignity]] · [[wiki/Right to Digital Death|Right to Digital Death]] ## Sources / Provenance - https://cnil.fr/fr/cahier-ip-n10 <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY INTERFACE --> ## Deep-Time Continuity Interface This node is audited through [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] for future control-surface conversion, ontological drift, succession, irreversibility, due process, and resource incidence. The backlink records analytical relevance; it does not establish continuity intent in the present rule or institution. <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY INTERFACE -->