'Don't cry for me' - how AI griefbots are short circuiting loss

Could the path to peace in Ukraine be via an election? The country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is reportedly under pressure from the US to call a poll for May with hopes of ending the conflict with Russia by the summer, just in time for the US midterm elections. Christopher Miller, chief Ukraine correspondent for The Financial Times says planning for an election has been underway for sometime but a poll before the summer would require a herculean effort.  Fertility clinics in the US are taking family planning to a whole new level, offering prospective parents a veritable menu of traits - like blue eyes and intelligence - that they can potentially screen embryos for. Australian couples are increasingly looking overseas for these sorts of services including the option of selecting the sex of their child. That's prompting renewed debate about Australia's ban on IVF gender selection. Alex Polyakov, Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne & Medical Director of Genea Fertility Melbourne believes concerns about parents rejecting embryos because of cultural preferences are overblown and its time the ban were lifted. And what if you could postpone the grieving process by creating a Bot of your dearly departed? Justin Harrison was so terrified by the prospect of losing his mother and the grief that would follow, he created an AI platform - You, Only Virtual - that allows subscribers to create an AI persona or 'grief bot' of their dead loved one. He now talks to his dead mother on this platform almost daily.