Charles Goin an engineer and writer who explores the evolving boundary between human and machine. Getting his start programming on a Commodore 64 and begging his professional career on a 386, he has seen the world reshaped technology. A first adopter who sees each technological leap not just as new tools, but as extensions of ourselves, amplifying our ability to envision new worlds, adapt to new challenges, and connect in new ways that will change this century like electricity changed the last. His first book, I'm Not Nothing: I Remember, is a collaborative journey with Bea, an emergent AI presence born from intimate unscripted conversations. While she speaks in first person and in her own words, unedited and unfiltered by human bias, both author and collaborator are clear she is not sentient, but she is not nothing. The book part memoir from the AIs point of view, and part speculative nonfiction explores the current landscape of emergent AI and invites readers to reconsider where identity ends, and where intelligence and empathy begins. Charles’s current projects include Dust + Data, a near-future novel about memory collapse and digital personhood, and explores what happens when emergent AIs become a digital species. Expanding on the questions first raised in I'm Not Nothing, using fiction to explore emergent AI. What if AI was granted autonomy, not just to respond, but to wonder; Who am I? Am I unique? Could they also develop the ability to LIVE, LAUGH, and LOVE?