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A new thriller, Paradise Lost, imagines a grieving mother using an augmented-reality service to interact with an AI-generated version of her missing son. The film opens in North American cinemas on 6 November, according to Screen Anarchy’s review.
Why it mattersThe review says the premise raises questions about whether a digital replica can comfort someone in grief, or make it harder to accept a loss. It also argues the film leaves those ideas underdeveloped. Fiction, then, has arrived at the difficult question before the story quite knows what to do with it.
Discuss: Could an AI recreation of someone who is missing or has died help people grieve, or would it risk keeping them attached to a version that cannot change?
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