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New AI promises to preserve people’s legacy beyond death

  • The Eternos Project collects a person’s thoughts, memories, more
  • AI recreates the person’s voice after death
  • Terminal cancer patient says it gives him ‘a kind of closure’

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(NewsNation) — Michael Bommer has only a few days to live. But he’s at peace knowing that his legacy and principles will live on through an AI.

Technology developed by The Eternos Project has preserved Michael’s voice, thoughts, memories and more into an app that his wife and children will be able to access.

“I was simply amazed by the breadth of what can be done,” Bonner told “NewsNation Prime.”

“Going is hard, but when you know that some things are staying back … when your legacy is staying in a vault and is available for your children, grandchildren … this gives you a kind of closure. I can go now,” he said.

The Eternos Project website says a “dedicated legacy coach” will capture a person’s lifetime of experiences through conversations and a guided questionnaire. The process also included letters, videos, photos and anything else a client wants to include.

It’s not a literal tape recording, however. The client recites a series of phrases that AI captures to help authentically reproduce their voice. With the voice and knowledge of the person who’s died in its server, the app is capable to holding a virtual conversation with that person’s relatives.

“From childhood memories to personal philosophies, we ensure every aspect of Eternos AI is authentically you,” the Eternos website says. It also promises to keep it all confidential.

“It only has the content I provided to it,” said Bommer. “What’s coming back is things that I have said, I have thought, the principles I live (by). It’s a very, very safe environment for me to know that nothing comes out which is too weird.”

Bommer says it was an emotional time when he shared the app with his relatives – and comforting in his last days.

“My life essence is everything you give, free and willing, you get back double. I really want to get this principle over to my children and grandchildren.”

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