Your Digital Twin Is Coming - And You Already Signed the Rights Away
About this episode
The episode discusses the implications of digital twins and AI avatars, including ownership rights and potential threats to personal identity.
our digital twin is already being built — and you probably signed away the rights in a terms-of-service agreement you never read. Rob Enderle, principal analyst at The Enderle Group, joins Jeremy and Jason to stress-test the next wave of AI avatars: the technology that can replicate your face, voice, and decision-making patterns well enough to attend your meetings, sign your contracts, and — if someone hostile gets hold of it — torch your reputation or your life. The conversation covers who owns your avatar after you die, whether autonomous AI weapons taking out human targets is a near-term reality (yes), and why the people most likely to fix this problem are also the ones racing fastest to cause it. Key Moments 00:00 — Rob on digital twins: why you probably can't tell if you're talking to the real person anymore 01:31 — AI newscasters in South Korea: the ventriloquist dummy model, already live on network TV 02:00 — Why avatars are a direct threat to actors — and Morgan Freeman's pivot to monetize his own 03:24 — Jason on the EULA problem: you already signed away your likeness on Instagram and Facebook 04:42 — Rob: by 2030–2035, your digital twin handles 90% of your online…
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