In the final weeks of his life, actor Eric Dane, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2024, teamed up with AI company ElevenLabs to restore his ability to communicate. His widow, Rebecca Gayheart Dane, now carries on his legacy through ElevenLabs’s 1 Million Voices initiative, which aims to provide 1 million people living with permanent voice loss free access to voice-restoration technology. In this conversation, Gayheart Dane and ElevenLabs cofounder Mati Staniszewski discuss the emotional power of the technology—and what it reveals about how companies can move beyond productivity narratives to use AI in ways that meaningfully improve lives.