Sorry, I’m Not Available. Talk to the A.I. Me.
Sorry, I’m Not Available. Talk to the A.I. Me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/business/dealbook/ai-digital-twin.html
Publish Date: 2026-06-06 08:00:00
Source Domain: www.nytimes.com
It started as a writing assistant. Jeremy Allaire, the C.E.O. of the stablecoin company Circle, trained an A.I. agent to think and write like him, feeding it his podcast interviews, his public writing and a corpus of internal communications.
He called it the “Jeremy Allaire skill.” The bot helped him compose drafts. And Allaire was impressed by how well the artificial intelligence captured the way he thinks and writes.
So impressed that he decided to let the bot talk to his more than 1,000 employees. Because while Allaire can’t meet with everyone, he realized that the A.I. version of him can.
“People can interact with the Jeremy Allaire skill on their own before they actually, you know, bring something to me,” he told DealBook, adding, “It’s available to everyone in the company who wants to have a dialogue with me.”
Across the business world, many leaders are experimenting with similar tools.
Consultants and executive coaches who don’t have the bandwidth to address every inquiry are referring some clients to their A.I. doubles. Harvard Business School professors have incorporated A.I. versions of themselves into courses and office hours. And executives are using their A.I. avatars to address employees in other countries in their own languages.
Whipping up an A.I. chatbot or avatar is easy. Allaire built his using Claude. A handful of start-ups provide interfaces that make it even easier and offer more control: Delphi takes your content and instructions and creates a voice and text chatbot that mimics you, while A.I. video generators like HeyGen and Synthesia will do the same for a digital avatar that copies your appearance.
“It’s just a new kind of artifact of your mind,” said Dara Ladjevardian, the C.E.O. of Delphi, which raised a $16 million round of funding led by Sequoia Capital last year. “The same way a book is, the same way a painting is, it’s a new way that people get to experience you.”
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