Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming the way people mourn — and remember. What once belonged to memory and emotion is now a product of algorithms, deep learning, and pixels.

From Moscow to Mumbai, grieving families are turning to “digital resurrection” services. In Russia, AI-generated farewell videos have become a phenomenon among families who lost relatives in war. In China, the booming “digital avatar” industry allows users to speak again with lost parents or partners.

Public life is following the same path. Indian politicians have used AI to revive historic leaders, while in the United States, a family presented an AI version of a deceased veteran in court. Elsewhere, groups have weaponized the same technology — as seen in Gaza, where Hamas released an AI video of its leader for propaganda purposes.

Psychologists and ethicists warn that such technology could reshape grief itself, creating what some call a synthetic closure. “You’re not remembering the dead,” one expert noted, “you’re interacting with an illusion built on data.”

Still, the market for digital immortality is thriving, predicted to reach tens of billions of dollars in the next decade. As AI continues to blur the line between remembrance and resurrection, society faces an unsettling question: Are we honoring the dead — or refusing to let them rest?