Ethical dilemma
Scenario
You work on machine learning using voice and language data. An industrial company offers you a substantial contract to participate in a project that aims to develop and market conversational agents called griefbots.
A griefbot imitates the speech and linguistic behavior of deceased people. It is not limited to reproducing its training data. Rather, a griefbot can generate new text or audio outputs that the imitated person never made during their lifetime.
Your task
Would you accept the offer? What are your arguments?