Episode

Can AI Replace Me? Evan Ratliff on Letting an AI Clone Live His Life

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Beyond The Prompt - How to use AI in your company
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Aug 5, 2025
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Summary

What happens when your AI clone starts answering phone calls for you—even with your friends and family? In this episode, journalist Evan Ratliff shares the story behind Shell Game, a six-part podcast exploring the unsettling, often absurd world of voice cloning and identity. From real-time scam baiting to AI therapy, Evan walks us through his experiment building and deploying a voice agent that sounded just like him—and what it revealed about technology, trust, and the future of being human.