Digital Afterlife Manager

A digital afterlife manager would look after a person's online life after they die: closing or memorializing accounts, handling digital money and files, and possibly overseeing AI chatbots that imitate the person. This is a projected job, not an established one. We found no count of people doing it and no hiring data, so most of this score is our projection.

The evidence we have is about the technology, and it points toward software doing much of this. Nature reported in September 2025 that "griefbots", chatbots that recreate dead people, already exist; their developers say they help mourners, while critics say they are risky. The big platforms are building this in themselves. In December 2025 Meta was granted a US patent for using a language model to simulate a user who is absent or has died, posting and messaging in their style; an American Bar Association analysis notes that Meta says it has no plans to use it, and that the "legacy contact" tools already built into social media were raised as earlier examples during the patent review.

We raise this from 2 to 3 (Moderate). The old 2 depended on a market forecast we could not find in any source. Much of the imagined job is paperwork with platforms and banks plus setting up AI personas, and in our view that is work the platforms and AI tools are positioned to take over. What stays human is dealing with grieving families, knowing their wishes, and making sensitive calls about what to keep. What would change the score: evidence of real, growing demand for paid digital-legacy services would bring it to 2. Platforms offering complete self-service legacy tools, including AI personas, would push it to 4.