As I uploaded a 1940s photo of my grandpa Max and hit a few buttons in Google’s Veo 3 video generator, I saw a familiar family photo transform from black and white to color.

Then, my grandpa stepped out of the photo and walked confidently toward the camera, his army uniform perfectly pressed as his arms swung at the sides of his lanky frame.

This is the kind of thing AI lets you do now–virtually bring back the dead.

As a hilarious Saturday Night Live sketch this weekend highlighted, though, just because we can reanimate our departed loved ones, that doesn’t necessarily mean we should.

Grilling the dog

The sketch, which The Atlantic has already called SNL’s “Black Mirror Moment”, features Ashley Padilla as an aging grandmother in a nursing home.

Her family members—played by Sarah Sher

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