Me and my digital twin

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Ghislaine Boddington aspires to be interconnected with an AI-powered digital companion - a virtual version of herself - that advises and supports her, keeps her healthy and represents her around the world. A twin that could live on after her death. As technologies converge, the idea of digital human twins is becoming a real possibility. In practical terms, a digital bio-twin is made up of continuously measured multiple biological signals from your body all fed into an avatar body. Add AI and our virtual twin will become more and more like us. In a journey that involves dancing in a Belgian basement, virtual table tennis and a discussion on digital death, Ghislaine meets cardiologists, engineers, performance artists and tech entrepreneurs to learn how to build her own virtual self, discovering how existing technology is making a digital human twin a reality. Written and presented by Ghislaine Boddington, senior researcher at the University of Greenwich. Take You Higher written and performed by Samantha Tauber, VNCCII Pty Limited. Producer: Richard Hollingham An EcoAudio certified Boffin Media production for BBC World Service (Photo: Composite image of Ghislaine Boddington. Credit: Ghislaine Boddington)