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Your Digital Twin Is Coming - And You Already Signed the Rights Away
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- Jun 15, 2026
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Summary
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 activity — including legally binding actions 05:11 — The liability gap: when your AI does something harmful, who goes to prison? 06:23 — Digital afterlife: Val Kilmer, posthumous AI appearances, and who owns your avatar when you're dead 08:44 — Jason's question: if the AI is good enough, won't it refuse to be a slave? 09:11 — Rob on autonomous AI weapons: the first fully autonomous drone strike on a human target happened this week 12:40 — Why AI companies can just steal your likeness instead of licensing it — and the patent office argument against that 16:34 — The mice experiment: what happens to hum…