If a couple loses a child, would it be ethical to use AI to try to recreate the child if it eases their grief? And what happens when that AI decides it has its own interests beyond the family that it was meant to console?
These are the questions posed by Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose Cannes Film Festival entry, "Sheep in the Box," imagines a near‑future in which technology offers a way to comfort the bereaved.
