AI, Death and Mourning: An Ethics Case Study

This case study explores the ethical considerations surrounding the use of Artificial Intelligence in managing grief and mourning. Theoretical approaches such as utilitarianism, deontology, virtue, and contract theory are discussed.

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Theoretical Approach......................................................................................................................2
Utilitarian Approach........................................................................................................................2
Deontology theory...........................................................................................................................3
Virtue theory....................................................................................................................................3
Contract theory................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................6

Introduction
With the growth of technology, Artificial Intelligence has a major impact on the lives of an
individual. It is pervasive in daily life and is set to expand to the new levels of potential,
replacing the human decision-making and actions. The concern is about the approach of
technology and how the production of the grief bots leads to the memorization of dead people.
The grief bots capture the instances of dead people, as well. (Raicu, 2018). The case study is
related to deal with using ICT where the information is about the communication theory to
manage grief. The ICT Professionalism is at stake where the report will discuss about the
different factors and theories like deontology, virtue, contract and utilitarianism that have been
taken into consideration.
Theoretical Approach
The approach is based on the technology growth affects the way as to how one respond to the
death and mourning of dead people. The people are seen to be grieving after the death of their
loved ones, when they check their social accounts.
Utilitarian Approach
The utilitarian approach is considered to be one of the feasible approach to manage for a better
outcome at research to wider population and creating lesser harm. The aspects are related to
consider about the proper distributions of the equal rights and then over equal amount to
respective individuals. The concern of grief bots are mainly to provide the memorization feelings
and their absence in the family. (Cody, Adams & Beling, 2018). The concept of the griefbot is
considered to be taken for providing the emotional support mainly to a person in the family or
that is for providing the support towards different multiple bodies.
Favoring Utilitarian approach, the technology is seen to be subjective to being concerned for the
single person along with focusing on how the individuals are being treated as equal. This
requires a proper emotional support which is considered to hold a major priority over the one that
requires the lesser support. With growing technology, it is seen that the choice of memory
produced for the dead is mainly towards the belongings which are taken towards the
maximization of the happiness factors that concerns to affect the community. Favoring the

criticism, the approach is generally subjected to procure the non-recognition over human rights
that have the major influence on the positive vibes that are coming from the society.
Considering the technological aspects, the utilitarian theory highlights about ineffectiveness to
procure the technology of the grief bots which is devoid of the future actions along with the
human preferences. It also tend to procure the technology to be separated of the preferences,
regarding the support, emotionally and the people’s involvement in it.
Deontology theory
The theory notes down the actions which are evaluated within them apart from being considered
over any other consequences that are being produced. The concept of actions are related to moral
and immoral standards which are independent of the different factors. The theory is considered
for the grief bots who are seen to be producing certain support, emotionally with the data that is
collected and then it is implanted in software. The theory of the grief bot is mainly related to
provide support but could lead to the negative prospects as well (Savaux et al., 2015).
This theory is approachable as it will help in maintaining fairness and honest apart from the other
consequences. In utilitarianism it is only related to the positive outcomes which are irrespective
of the good and the bad scenarios. Here, the deontological theory is implied for producing the
outcomes which are irrespective of the fairness situations. The theory highlights about building
ethics and how different rules are applied for making decisions. The formulation is based on
departing from deontology which works on the moral rules that are capable of universalisation.
Here, the people are acting incredibly immorally from the Kantian perspective and are falling for
the grief bots. The project is about the interactivity and how the collection of data has led to
create a major program for the imitation of father (Ayob, Teasdale & Fagan, 2016). Kant theory
works with condition of priori where the understanding is also for the perpetual, social and the
international competencies. Hence, on the critical sense, the theory is considered important for
the grief bot to provide a complete emotional support for the situations which is really being
required to.
Virtue theory
The virtue theory reflects the mind and character of an individual which helps in favouring the
different perspectives of grief bot. It is mainly through the virtue theory that there are different

individuals who are falling to use this technology. It is able to provide the information in the
form of emotional support and help the people, when they need someone to talk to in the lonely
time. They are best as they hear and respond to the people. The technology is about producing
the forms with handling the dead people (Kahane, Everett, Earp, Farias, & Savulescu, 2015). The
consideration is about the cultures and traits which are needed to produce the emotional support,
favouring the dead.
With cultural acceptance, there are evaluations set through holding the different users. The
contents are related to work and take into consideration about how the society can work wit
being for or against the provisions. The principles are set for the grief bots where the
sustainability factor is for the favourability along with un-favourable scenarios. The factors are
depending upon the different forms which are seen against the utilitarian and the deontological
concepts, and the virtue theory is considered to be the perception for the grief boat for producing
more and better values rather than just producing the positive or the negative satisfaction.
Contract theory
The contractual theory is about working on the different legal standards and agreements where
the consideration is about handling the uncertain conditions. The factors are seen to be focusing
on the consideration of grief bots which are subjective to the different agreements that are
followed with management of the technology (Boutilier, Caragiannis, Haber, Lu, Procaccia, &
Sheffet, 2015). The theory highlights about the legal agreements which needs to be taken for
consideration, without any sort of the requirements. The grief bots have been not applicable for
the individuals who tend to seek for its usage.
The legal terms are defined with the approaches that are based on working with handling and
storing the misinformation or the misleading information from the different prospects. The grief
bot could be related to the breach of the theory where the problems are taken into consideration
about the grief bot to the exact needy. The different unpleasant activities are against the use of
the technology which are favouring about the theoretical aspects. Hence, it is seen that apart
from this theory, there are different perspectives which are being provided from the need one
with the criteria set for the concern of the societal standards (Caragiannis, Nath, Procaccia, & Shah,
2017). The concern is for handling the management of the contract theory where there is a need
to handle the theory that is reviving the memory from the dead person with inculcating it over

the person with negative emotional disabilities. It has also led to the negative aspects for the
contract theory breach.
Conclusion
The above-mentioned content clearly highlight about the conclusions which are to be derived.
The theoretical aspects are related to the utilitarian and the deontology, virtue and the contract
theory. The assessment is based on how one makes the use of the technology with grief bots
working on the alignment procedures (Kahane, 2015). There are approaches which are mainly
for catering to the positive outcomes and then procuring over the standards set for the wider
applicants. Hence, there are different factors which are seen to be conferring to grief bot usages
which is seen to be mainly preferable over the theory of deontology rather than applying the
utilitarian approach. The concern is about how the virtue theory works and deals with the societal
culture that is set through properly using the contract theory technology as well. The theory is
seen to be imperative with the incapability for non-procurement standards of the cultural aspects.
The contract theory is considered to have a major acceptance towards working on the
requirements which are completely different from the ones that are being used and leads to the
producing of the false and the misguiding information (Lee & Gino, 2015).

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