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June 11, 2024

NPR – Does artificial intelligence deliver immortality?

NPR - National Public Radio A couple of years ago, he was diagnosed with colon cancer. The doctors told him it was terminal. “A year ago, I sat with my wife in one of these more teary-eyed exercises, talking about what comes. And my wife said, ‘Hey, one of the things I will miss most is being able to come…
June 4, 2024

Global News – Roy Green Show – Michael Bommer and Andy LoCascio

AI Generated Communication and a Life Story Michael Bommer is a German man with perhaps weeks to live because of cancer. Andrew LoCascio is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of the AI company Eternos.life. Michael Bommer became the first person to engage in the Eternos AI program which stores his voice, thoughts, memories and the principles by which he lived…
June 3, 2024

AP – Michael Bommer – Eternos

BERLIN (AP) — When Michael Bommer found out that he was terminally ill with colon cancer, he spent a lot of time with his wife, Anett, talking about what would happen after his death. She told him one of the things she'd miss most is being able to ask him questions whenever she wants because he is so well read…
May 29, 2024

CNET – Eternos Wants to Help You Live Forever

The startup offers an AI-based legacy service, which allows you to communicate with loved ones even after you die. Humanity has long sought, and failed, to achieve immortality. Now the AI era has a solution. Sort of. Eternos is a startup that creates AI voice clones of people so their loved ones can continue to interact with them after they've…
May 17, 2024

NBC News – Cancer Patient Uses AI to Help Family Remember Him

Michael Bommer, a cancer patient who was diagnosed with colon cancer that became terminal, is using AI to help his family remember him. Eternos CEO Robert LoCascio reached out with an idea to capture Bommer's voice and memories and turn it into an AI that can interact with his family members.
May 14, 2024

New York Post Interviews Michael Bommer

I have just weeks left to live — but thanks to AI, my family can talk to me forever Michael Bommer’s days are numbered but his presence will carry on — thanks to artificial intelligence. Everything changed for Bommer, a 61-year-old software designer from Berlin, Germany, when he received a devastating colon cancer diagnosis two years ago. After many procedures and…
May 13, 2024

Unsterblich als digitales Ich? ZDF Germany

US-Startup Eternos hat eine KI entwickelt, die Hinterbliebenen einen digitalen Zwilling ihrer Angehörigen hinterlässt. Medienethiker befürchten Folgen für die Trauerbewältigung.
May 12, 2024

NewsNation Interviews Michael Bommer – Eternos AI #1

(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...
May 4, 2024

Michael Bommer – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Michael Bommer, der an Krebs leidet, lässt seine Persönlichkeit in einer künstlichen Intelligenz verewigen. Er möchte seiner Frau auch nach seinem Tod Geschichten erzählen. Michael Bommer wird sterben. Nach zwei Jahren nähert sich das 60-jährige Leben im Kampf gegen den Krebs dem Ende. Bald wird er in ein Hospiz ziehen. Vorher hat er alle seine Freunde in seine Wohnung am…

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