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The Conversation · Aug 4

When a journalist uses AI to interview a dead child, isn’t it time to ask what the boundaries should be?

The virtual world can bring a kind of friendship and a kind of connection, even to the grieving. But it can also facilitate exploitation of very human needs, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK · Aug 8, 2025

Backlash After 'Interview' With AI Avatar Of US School Shooting Victim

Independent journalist Jim Acosta faced a torrent of online criticism Wednesday after he posted an "interview" conducted with an AI avatar of a US school shooting victim.

International Business Times · Aug 6, 2025

Jim Acosta interviews ‘made-up’ AI avatar of Parkland victim Joaquin Oliver

Artificially generated video of Oliver, one of 17 victims of the shooting, addresses Acosta in ‘one of a kind interview’

The Guardian - US · Aug 5, 2025

How the Mother of a School Shooting Victim Is Fighting Back With Video Games

'The Final Exam' is a PC survival horror game made by the nonprofit, Change the Ref, in collaboration with a game developer, Webcore Games, about surviving a school shooting.

Inverse · Oct 8, 2024

A school shooting videogame made by the parents of a victim aims to change minds about gun control: 'This is not a scary game, it's an educational game'

The Final Exam is a harsh recreation of the horrors of school shootings, and a call to do something about it.

PC Gamer · Oct 7, 2024

SB parade shooting: 1 killed, 21 injured

The shooting interrupted a CNN panel on gun reform on the sixth anniversary of the Parkland school shooting

Salon · Feb 15, 2024

Voices of the dead: shooting victims plead for gun reform with AI-voice messages

Voices of people lost to gun violence have been re-created using AI to call for action, now six years to the day after the Parkland shooting that killed 17

The Guardian - US · Feb 14, 2024

Gun violence killed them. Now, their voices will lobby Congress to do more using AI

On the 6th anniversary of the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., gun control advocates experiment with AI-generated audio messages of recreated voices of victims of gun violence pleading for change.

WEKU · Feb 14, 2024

Her son was killed in Parkland. She hopes a harrowing picture book will finally cause lawmakers to act

‘Joaquin’s First School Shooting’ borrows the aesthetics and language of children’s book, but its contents are purposely chilling. Patricia Oliver, whose son Joaquin was 17 when he died in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, tells Clémence Michallon how lawmakers are responding to the book

The Independent UK · Jun 7, 2023