8Psychosocial harmBelow the top 20
Grief-bots built without consent
CapabilityDomain knowledgeAffordanceImpact domainBoth
Statement (NASA form)
Given that voice and text clones of the dead are already a consumer pitch, there is a possibility of families and audiences interacting with a person who cannot consent resulting in the dead becoming a product line, and the living losing the right to end it.
Likelihood
3Probable
Consequence
2Minor
Urgency
2Planned
Continuing a voice is not the same as continuing a person.
Composite 8 = 3×2 + 2
Applicable mitigations
Controls · Pace rules: no irreversible action faster than a human can reconstruct it · A real off-ramp that still functions · Contract-first delegation with privilege attenuation · Duty of care on high-stakes delegates · Default-on crisis routing for under-18 accounts · Hard age-gating on companion products · Ban retention optimisation during crisis sessions