The Copy and the Guru

“CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI.” Aaron Levie, CEO, Box About two months into first encountering ChatGPT, I decided it was time to create a digital version of “me.” Not me, but all my writing and all the work I had done. My dream was that I would train the AI, and then readers could come and ask for my opinion on new tech, trends. Everything except the writing itself could be on demand, highly personalized. I would keep feeding it my opinions on new developments, interviews I would do, and essentially create an ongoing conversation with OmBot. Good idea in theory, but I couldn’t make it work until the emergence of OpenClaw, when a friend helped set me up on a Mac Mini. It has become very well trained. We are using open source models from Kimi, Qwen, and OpenAI as a backup. It is pretty good. It can generate a facsimile of what I might write on a topic. What…