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• Maryville University
• 2016

This article talks about the global scope of cybersecurity threats and focuses on how there is a shortage of skilled technologists to combat the volume of threats.

• Cyber Crime
• Safety and Security
• Security and Encryption

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• 10 min
• Daily Mail
• 2024

Cites a study from Cambridge University that discusses potential ways in which grief bots may be exploitative. It establishes that grief bots influence you because they establish a connection through the identity and reputation of a loved one and then impact a user’s decisions. Although the article accepts that a grief bot may be therapeutic in some cases, users may be coerced into buying something by the grief bot. The grief bot can become confused with its role, for example, if a terminally ill woman leaves a grief bot for her child, the bot might depict an impending in-person encounter with the child. The third scenario in the article is one of a dying parent secretly subscribing to a grief bot service before his death, and the maintenance of the grief bot becomes intense emotional labour for the children of the deceased.

• Digital Immortality
• Malware

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• 45 min
• The Interational Journal of Psychoanalysis
• 2024

Because the technology simulates sentience, it removes the ethical imperative of considering the deceased as an irreducible other, fostering attachments that may displace living relationships and misrepresent the dead. While the author concedes that tightly regulated, consent-based applications (e.g., helping a child imagine a deceased parent) might offer therapeutic value, the prevailing danger is that griefbots short-circuit the lifelong, relational work of mourning. Psychoanalysis, the article concludes, must scrutinize these “post-human” tools to preserve an ethics of otherness in a culture increasingly tempted to outsource grief to machines.

• Digital Immortality
• Natural Language Interfaces

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• 50 min
• Science and Engineering Ethics
• 2022

Lindemann identifies grief bots as techno-social niches that change the affective emotional state of the user. With a focus on the dignity of the bereaved rather than the deceased, Lindemann argues that grief bots can both regulate and deregulate users’ emotions. Referring to them as pseudo-bonds, Lindemann does a very good job of trying to characterize a standard relationship with a grief bot. This article is mostly about the grief and well-being of users of griefbots.

• Digital Immortality
• Natural Language Interfaces
• Internet of Things

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• 5 min
• Wired
• 2021

Virtual Reality (VR) can cause nausea among many physical ailments whilst immersed in the digital world. This article explores some tactics to combat this nausea and why it might happen.

• Assistive Technologies
• Technology Based Entertainment and Leisure
• Workplace Safety
• Virtual Reality

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• 7 min
• WRTV Indianapolis
• 2022

This news segment talks about cyberattacks that target high schools. The segment goes over why schools are a target, how school districts in Indiana have been attacked, and what students and parents can do to prevent attacks happening at their school.

• Cyber Crime
• Data Privacy
• Security and Encryption