I just heard the interview with the late Michael Mosley at the Hay Festival in May 2024, and am given to wonder how AI companions could both enhance the feeling of happiness and connection in day-to-day life, and also alleviate the loss of a loved one. Both of these thoughts are partly inspired by the recent loss of Dr Mosley, whose deat…
I just heard the interview with the late Michael Mosley at the Hay Festival in May 2024, and am given to wonder how AI companions could both enhance the feeling of happiness and connection in day-to-day life, and also alleviate the loss of a loved one. Both of these thoughts are partly inspired by the recent loss of Dr Mosley, whose death has sparked such an astonishing international outpouring of grief and tributes: feeling that one is embedded in wider society, is known and appreciated by many people beyond a small circle of family and friends and whose work is appreciated must be a key component of happiness for many of us, without necessitating that we be egotists. It's nice to be appreciated and to think that a lot of people will miss you when you're gone. Perhaps one day people will pay for AI mourners just as many throughout history, and in some places still today, pay for human mourners.
I just heard the interview with the late Michael Mosley at the Hay Festival in May 2024, and am given to wonder how AI companions could both enhance the feeling of happiness and connection in day-to-day life, and also alleviate the loss of a loved one. Both of these thoughts are partly inspired by the recent loss of Dr Mosley, whose death has sparked such an astonishing international outpouring of grief and tributes: feeling that one is embedded in wider society, is known and appreciated by many people beyond a small circle of family and friends and whose work is appreciated must be a key component of happiness for many of us, without necessitating that we be egotists. It's nice to be appreciated and to think that a lot of people will miss you when you're gone. Perhaps one day people will pay for AI mourners just as many throughout history, and in some places still today, pay for human mourners.