I Built AI Clones of My Coworkers. Things Got Weird
A writer built AI replicas of real colleagues and found the results unsettling — the bots mirrored personality traits and speech patterns in ways that felt off, even when they were partly accurate.
Why this matters: Training an AI on a real person's words and habits to simulate them is not a novelty act. It is a preview of something with real consequences. Your coworkers did not consent to being cloned. Their communication style, their quirks, their professional identity — that is their data. Companies could use this to replace people, simulate them in meetings, or manufacture responses they never gave. The technology is already easy enough for a journalist to do over a weekend. The rules around it are nowhere close to ready.
Who should care: General readers · AI governance · Policy
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