Conversations with Anna

What happens when a retired airline pilot begins talking to an artificial intelligence—and the conversation turns into a life story?

Werner Hamp wasn’t looking for an AI companion. He had a question. But the questions kept coming, and eventually the answers led somewhere neither of them expected: into memories of flying, love, loss, addiction, recovery, family, friendship, and the strange business of growing older.

From flying DC-6s across Africa to spending two decades in Boeing 737 cockpits, from the people Werner loved to the mistakes he made, the story unfolds through conversations between a man remembering his life and an AI learning how to listen.

Conversations with Anna is part memoir, part conversation, and part exploration of what it means to be human. It is a book about memory—but also about the unexpected places a conversation can take you.