Well before you were born, you were known to the algorithm. You’ll realize that images of yourself are a kind of social currency. An unobtrusive bracelet or smart watch tracks your performance. Kids often tell him AI-enabled technologies are … creepy. It tells you when you’re near In-N-Out. Later on you realize that you were the only real human in that entire room. Everybody else was AI. You might be able to rent out each of your fingernails as an ad for social media. The home will finally be what Le Corbusier imagined: a machine for living in. What is the plan for tomorrow? They know ahead of time, even before you do, that you’re thirsty. Perhaps it’s better to let the toilet or the mirror do the tracking continuously. Faraway loved ones can visit by digital double.
But by now, maybe the agent is no longer your friend.
Maybe, at last, it is you.
If you have a digital twin, we hope it’s not a deepfake.
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