Description

What happens when artificial intelligence can preserve our voices, recreate our younger selves, and converse using our recorded memories and stories? Explore the emerging world of AI avatars, digital humans, voice cloning, and interactive memory archives. Through demonstrations, discussion, and thought experiments, this course examines how technology may extend identity across time—and what these systems reveal about memory, aging, mortality, and what it means to be human.

Charles Webster, MD, MSIE, MSIS, has spent decades exploring the crossroads of people, machines, and ideas. Trained in engineering, business, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and medicine, he brings technical insight and human perspective to today’s AI revolution. Lifelong explainer and enthusiast, Webster makes complex ideas approachable and fun for learners ready to laugh, question, and imagine where AI might take us next.