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Digital Echoes: AI, Memory, and the Art of Immortality (Feb 24)

Digital Echoes: AI, Memory, and the Art of Immortality (Feb 24), © Image courtesy of iStock
In this conversation, Amy Kurzweil meets Austrian-American author and literary scholar Ann Cotten to explore the boundaries between artificial and human creativity, memory, and digital immortality.
Can we preserve family history through artificial intelligence? What happens when we try to recreate and “bring back” loved ones through technology? In her graphic novel Artificial: A Love Story, American comic artist Amy Kurzweil documents the attempt by her famous father, Ray Kurzweil, to make the family's history accessible again with the help of a chatbot that mimics the voice of her deceased grandfather—a story about immortality, Jewish heritage, and the relationship between humans and Artificial Intelligence.
In this conversation, Amy Kurzweil meets Austrian author and literary scholar Ann Cotten, who was born in the USA. Together, they explore the boundaries between artificial and human creativity, memory, and digital immortality. Ann Cotten is the editor of the anthology Schreiben nach KI (Writing After AI, Matthes & Seitz, 2025) and works with an AI tool that is trained on her texts.
This event is in collaboration with the German-American Institute Heidelberg
Date and Time: Monday, February 24 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Location: virtual- Zoom
More information: https://www.1014.nyc/events/digital-echoes