I've got a reminder in my calendar this weekend that it's 6 years since my best friend and fairy godmother Anna died.

So of course all four teams competing in today's AI safety hackathon chose to focus on a scenario involving the creation of a deathbot that memorialises and perhaps continues to represent a person who has died.

I was doing fine until one of the groups said the point of grieving is to remodel your relationship with a person who was living and is now passed.

WELP. Nearly cried all over them. Managed to hold back the waterworks but I would have been visibly emotional. Not what you'd expect from a mentor and judge!