Oct. 19, 2025

Digital Immortality! How AI Can Preserve Your Voice, Wisdom, and Legacy | Rob LoCascio

In this episode of An Hour of Innovation podcast, host Vit Lyoshin sits down with Rob LoCascio, the visionary founder of LivePerson and creator of Uare.ai (Formerly Eternos), to explore the future of human-centered AI and the concept of digital immortality.

Rob shares how Uare.ai (Formerly Eternos) builds deeply personal AI avatars that replicate not just how you sound, but how you think and make decisions. By combining voice modeling with what he calls “zero-party data,” your untold stories and life experiences, Uare.ai (Formerly Eternos) creates digital versions of people that can carry on conversations, offer advice, and even preserve emotional connections.

He tells the moving story of the company’s first user, a terminally ill man who recorded 25 hours of his life and later spoke to his AI self, creating a powerful proof of concept for the emotional and human side of AI.

The conversation expands into topics like privacy, data ownership, AI ethics, and how personal AI could change the way we connect across generations.

Rob also reflects on his 30-year entrepreneurial journey, from inventing web chat and leading LivePerson through the early days of conversational AI to building Uare.ai (Formerly Eternos) with a mission to make AI that remembers us, not replaces us.

This episode dives deep into the intersection of technology, humanity, and legacy, offering a glimpse into a future where our knowledge and stories can live on forever through AI.

Show Notes

Rob LoCascio is a visionary tech entrepreneur best known as the founder and former CEO of LivePerson, the company that introduced real-time web chat to the internet. After nearly three decades leading innovation in customer experience and AI, he launched Uare.ai (Formerly Eternos), an AI platform focused on preserving human stories and memories through personalized AI models.

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Takeaways

Rob shares the emotional story of a man who recorded his life story and later spoke to his AI self, proving how technology can preserve human connection.
The core idea behind Uare.ai (formerly Eternos): building human-centered AI that keeps our memories, wisdom, and emotions alive.
Rob predicts that experts and professionals will soon have AI versions of themselves sharing their knowledge globally.
Passing down wisdom through personal AI is more powerful than passing down money; it’s a new kind of legacy.
Rob reflects on nearly 30 years as a founder and reminds entrepreneurs that building something meaningful isn’t easy, but it’s worth it.