BONUS: Someone offered to clone me (here's what I said)
Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast
Josephine Hardman
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Someone offered to clone me; or, create an "AI avatar" of me so I could put it everywhere online. Is this where the world is going??
In this bonus episode of INNER WORK, I share the story of what happened, my thoughts on this kind of use of AI in spiritual work (and running an online-based spiritual business), and how I responded to this offer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, dear podcast listener and welcome to this impromptu bonus episode of Inner Work. |
| 0:11.4 | I am your host, Josephine Hartman, and so honored and delighted that you have tuned in today. |
| 0:19.6 | So I wanted to create this bonus episode to share something kind of crazy |
| 0:25.2 | that happened just recently here, which made me ask internally, is this really where the world |
| 0:34.4 | is going? Like, is this where we are? Is this where the world is going? Wow. |
| 0:41.1 | Because it was really freaky. So here's the story. Just a few days ago, I got this message from a |
| 0:51.4 | company online saying that they have developed some kind of technology to basically |
| 1:01.3 | run through all of my content. So of course you're listening to this podcast. You know I have a |
| 1:07.7 | podcast. I also have a YouTube channel. So I have video content. I have a blog. So I have a podcast. I also have a YouTube channel, so I have video content. |
| 1:12.6 | I have a blog, so I have written content. |
| 1:15.1 | I have a lot of content that I've created over the years. |
| 1:19.8 | So this company said, you know, we can kind of take all of that and create this AI avatar of me. And from there, create like 40 to 50 short videos |
| 1:38.3 | per month of this fake version of me, so this AI avatar, just talking or doing whatever, which then I would be |
| 1:48.8 | able to post on social media, on YouTube, Instagram, wherever, right? I'd be able to post the videos |
| 1:56.9 | of this fake version of me talking based on my previous and current free content online. |
| 2:08.3 | So they were basically posing this as, you know, this can be a shortcut to grow your visibility, |
| 2:16.5 | to grow your business, attract more people into your business. |
| 2:20.9 | Like this would be a great way to use AI in the world that we're in. Wow. So as I was reading this email, |
| 2:28.7 | it just was really kind of, I was shaken by this. Because the thing is, I've never taken shortcuts in my business. |
| 2:39.1 | I don't want to take shortcuts because that's just not the person I am. |
| 2:45.5 | And because one of my highest values in life and in running a spiritual business and the podcast and all of the |
| 2:54.4 | things that I do is integrity, along with transparency, depth, genuine humanity, right, vulnerability, |
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