Dr Tomasz Hollanek, Assistant Research Professor at Cambridge and a leading voice on the ethics of grief bots and postmortem AI avatars, joins Andrew Phipps to unpack the hardest questions in this space: who consents to a digital version of a dead person, what happens to family members who never opted in, and when, if ever, a deadbot should be switched off. The conversation moves through AI companions and the UK's loneliness and social care crisis, the danger of letting profit driven companies define what "beneficial" AI companionship means, and Tomasz's argument that consent should be a recurring conversation rather than a one time click. A rigorous, humane look at some of the strangest and most urgent territory in AI ethics.

Guest: Dr Tomasz Hollanek, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.  ...