AI Visionary Ray Kurzweil Unveils RAI, a Digital Twin Built to Outlive Him

Ray Kurzweil, the futurist who has spent decades predicting that artificial intelligence could help humanity transcend death, has now taken a direct step toward that goal. The 78-year-old has partnered with Praxis AI to create RAI, a sophisticated digital twin that preserves not just his knowledge but the reasoning patterns and intellectual framework that define how he thinks. Unveiled on July 10, 2026, at the United Nations' AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, RAI represents an ambitious bet on whether a digital consciousness can meaningfully continue a person's work and relationships after biological death.