| Jun 22, 2026 |
I was interviewed for BBC World’s What in the World program on AI grief technologies and the ethics of digital afterlife.
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| Jun 15, 2026 |
New essay in 3 Quarks Daily: On Childhood, Imagination, and the Toys That Now Talk Back — on what children lose when AI enters the imagination.
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| Jun 01, 2026 |
I was featured on BBC World Service’s What in the World?, discussing GriefBots and the psychological and ethical questions raised when AI simulates the deceased.
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| Apr 15, 2026 |
I was a panelist at Southern Methodist University’s AI and Religion symposium, discussing the intersection of faith, mortality, and artificial intelligence.
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| Feb 04, 2026 |
I gave the talk Doppelgängers: When AI Speaks for the Living, the Dead, and the Imagined at the UC Davis Center for Artificial Intelligence and Experimental Futures.
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| Dec 22, 2025 |
I was interviewed for the Healthcare Musings podcast on “Can AI Chatbots Make End-of-Life Decisions?” - examining the promise and peril of conversational AI in palliative care settings.
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| Dec 01, 2025 |
I have a paper at the Muslims in ML Workshop at NeurIPS 2025.
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| Nov 15, 2025 |
FOX 13 Seattle did a feature on my GrandpaBot research, exploring how AI simulations connect grandchildren with deceased grandparents.
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| Oct 20, 2025 |
My work was featured in Ars Technica: “Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?” - on algorithmic surrogates in end-of-life decision-making.
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| Oct 10, 2025 |
I gave the talk When Your Grandpa Is a Bot at the King County Library System (KCLS), bringing questions about AI grief technologies to public library audiences across the region.
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| Jun 15, 2025 |
My work was featured in Ars Technica: “How to draft a will to avoid becoming an AI ghost.”
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| May 15, 2025 |
I was part of the AI and Faith panel on “AI and Grief: Griefbots/Deathbots,” discussing the religious and ethical dimensions of digital afterlife technologies.
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| Mar 15, 2025 |
I gave the talk When Your Grandpa Is a Bot at the Wenatchee Rotary Club, exploring the ethics and psychology of AI grief technologies for a general audience.
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| Feb 06, 2025 |
I was on The Ethical Challenges of AI: Humanistic and Religious Responses to the Demands of Artificial Intelligence panel at the United Nations along with John Tasioulas (University of Oxford), Father Paolo Benanti (AI advisor to Pope Francis), Nathalie Smuha (KU Leuven), and Benedetta Audia (UN Advisor).
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| Jan 17, 2025 |
The New York Times did a follow up study on AI and religion where they mention my work on creating the Rabbit Bot.
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| Jan 14, 2025 |
Giving a talk on Wesley Homes on When Your Grandpa Is a Bot: AI, Death, and Digital Dopplegangers on January 14, 2025 and then at Coordinators of Patient Services in Bellevue, WA on January 15, 2025
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| Jan 02, 2025 |
The New York Times has an article on the use of AI in sermons where they profile of Rabbi Josh Fixler and the AI generated sermons for Rabbit Bot, a system that I created.
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| Nov 15, 2024 |
This week I have two papers out: (1) Building persoanlity adaptive conversational agents for mental health therapy at the International Workshop on Parallel and AI-based Bioinformatics and Biomedicine ParBio at ACM-BCB (2) 𝐸2𝑇2: Emote Embedding for Twitch Toxicity Detection at CSCW
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| Nov 07, 2024 |
I am giving a talk (When Your Grandpa Is a Bot: AI, Death, and Digital Dopplegangers) at the Coyote Ridge Corrections Center in Eastern Washingon
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| Nov 04, 2024 |
I am giving a talk Digital Resurrections: A Son’s Journey to Recreate His Father with Artificial Intelligence at the Grand Cinema which is part of their Science on Screen Series
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| Oct 09, 2024 |
I gave the annual Huntingford Humanities Lecture (When Your Grandpa Is a Bot: AI, Death, and Digital Doppelgangers) at the Jefferson County Library, WA
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| Sep 27, 2024 |
I was a panelist at the staging of the Play CYpher in University Heights, Seattle. The play deals with the issues of digital immortality, identity and family.
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| Aug 20, 2024 |
Gave a talk on Integrating Machine Learning and Complex Systems perspectives on Chronic critical illness at the Air Force Institute of Technology
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