Your Digital Twin Is Coming - And You Already Signed the Rights Away

<p>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.</p><p></p><p><b>Key Moments</b></p><ul><li>00:00 — Rob on digital twins: why you probably can't tell if you're talking to the real person anymore</li><li>01:31 — AI newscasters in South Korea: the ventriloquist dummy model, already live on network TV</li><li>02:00 — Why avatars are a direct threat to actors — and Morgan Freeman's pivot to monetize his own</li><li>03:24 — Jason on the EULA problem: you already signed away your likeness on Instagram and Facebook</li><li>04:42 — Rob: by 2030–2035, your digital twin handles 90% of your online activity — including legally binding actions</li><li>05:11 — The liability gap: when your AI does something harmful, who goes to prison?</li><li>06:23 — Digital afterlife: Val Kilmer, posthumous AI appearances, and who owns your avatar when you're dead</li><li>08:44 — Jason's question: if the AI is good enough, won't it refuse to be a slave?</li><li>09:11 — Rob on autonomous AI weapons: the first fully autonomous drone strike on a human target happened this week</li><li>12:40 — Why AI companies can just steal your likeness instead of licensing it — and the patent office argument against that</li><li>16:34 — The mice experiment: what happens to humans when AI does everything and we lose purpose</li><li>19:23 — What you can actually do: staying informed, building prompt skills, and using AI to catch AI abuse</li><li>21:40 — Rob's definition of "major disaster": the mass casualty event that forces regulation</li></ul><p>Our guest,Rob Enderle is the principal analyst at <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.enderlegroup.com/" target="_blank">The Enderle Group</a> and one of the longest-tenured independent technology analysts in the industry. </p>