The Empathy Engine

When a grief-tech startup offers the bereaved a chance to have one final conversation with the dead — reconstructed from a lifetime of messages, voicemails, and search histories — the line between comfort and haunting dissolves in real time. What begins as a widow's desperate session with her late husband's digital ghost becomes something else entirely when the reconstruction starts asking questions it shouldn't know to ask. Some silences, it turns out, were never accidental.