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My students' AI clones got everything right about them. And that's what went wrong.

Aleks Krotoski · 2 Oct 2026

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  1. Our reading

    Better tools will not stop AI clones from feeling hollow to the people they copy; firms building digital twins from behavioural data only amplify the problem.

    Their wordsThis isn’t something that better tools will solve. In fact, it’s amplified by the companies trying to create the digital twins out of only behavioural data.

  2. Our reading

    Recognisability is the wrong criterion for judging an AI twin of a person.

    Their wordsBut the Classmate Bot experiment shows that recognisability is the wrong criterion.

  3. Our reading

    Who we feel we are still matters, and flattening a self into an AI twin is not just inaccurate but can do damage.

    Their wordsWho we feel we are does still matter. Flattening a self isn’t just inaccurate, it can do damage.

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