2 papers
cs.CY2026
Postmortem avatars in grief therapy: Prospects, ethics, and governance
Joshua Hatherley, Sandrine R. Schiller, Iwan Williams +3
Postmortem avatars (PMAs) -- AI systems that simulate a deceased person by being fine-tuned on data they generated or that was generated about them -- have attracted growing schola…
cs.CL2024
Chatting with Bots: AI, Speech Acts, and the Edge of Assertion
Iwan Williams, Tim Bayne
This paper addresses the question of whether large language model-powered chatbots are capable of assertion. According to what we call the Thesis of Chatbot Assertion (TCA), chatbo…