Chinese mourners use AI to digitally resurrect the dead

Seakoo Wu

Seakoo Wu (R) and his wife visiting the grave of their son Wu Xuanmo, who died in 2022 aged 22 while attending Exeter University in Britain, at a cemetery in China's Eastern Zhejiang Provinceon November 7, 2023. PHOTO | AFP

Photo credit: Hector Retamal | AFP

At a quiet cemetery in Eastern China, bereaved father Seakoo Wu pulls out his phone, places it on a gravestone and plays a recording of his son.

They are words that the late student never spoke but brought into being with artificial intelligence.