The Download: AI replicas, and China's climate role

Imagine sitting down with an AI model for a spoken two-hour interview. Not long after, a virtual replica of you is able to embody your values and preferences with stunning accuracy. They recruited 1,000 people and, from interviews with them, created agent replicas of them all. To test how well the agents mimicked their human counterparts, participants did a series of tests, games and surveys, then the agents completed the same exercises. The results were 85% similar.