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Own Your Identity: Who Controls Your Voice, and Likeness? | Anne Kavanagh, Royall.ai #684
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- Aug 31, 2026
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Summary
**AI can now reproduce a person’s face, voice, movement, and likeness with increasing realism.** The **bigger question** **is becoming:** **Who gets to control that identity, authorize its use, and potentially get paid when it has commercial value?** In **Episode #684 of the [New Media Show](https://newmediashow.com)**, **Host [Rob Greenlee](https://robgreenlee.com) talks** with **[Anne Kavanagh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/akavanagh/), co-founder of [Royall.ai](https://royall.ai/)**, about building a new permission and licensing layer around human identity. > _**The conversation is not about stopping or being anti-AI. It is about establishing something that has largely been missing: proof and authorization before use.**_ **Your Identity Becomes an Asset You Control** > _**Royall.ai is developing what Anne describes as a biometric vault where people can register elements of their identity, including voice, face, likeness, and body motion.**_ > > _**Those assets can be fingerprinted and watermarked, creating the foundation for detecting use, approving or rejecting it, and potentially licensing it commercially.**_ > > _**That changes the discussion from simply asking whether AI can clone someone to asking whether the person actually gave permission.**_ **A creator could potentially say:** * Use my voice for this campaign, but only for six months. * Allow my likeness to be used to train this model, but pay me. * Do not use my identity for this purpo…