Can AI be you? (Or will the ‘bubble’ burst first?)

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Technology, Interviews, News, Silicon Valley, Ai, Artificial Intelligence, Tech, Business News, Business Analysis

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Danny talks to Dara Ladjevardian, co-founder of Delphi - a company that creates digital AI versions of... well, you! So, you can be you, more often. Answering queries, talking to your mom and making your own podcast... if only! Katie, meanwhile, is considering the Bank of England's warning of a potential AI bubble being deepened by the use of debt to help underpin $5 trillion of investment to build this AI future.

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0:00.0	This is the Times Tech podcast from The Times and the Sunday Times with me, Danny.
0:08.2	Fortin, Danny in the Valley, here in sunny but chilly, California.
0:13.4	And you know what? It's sunny and chilly here in the city, the city of London, where I am Katie Prescott.
0:20.5	And today on the tech podcast, we're looking at
0:24.0	whether AI can make the perfect companion. And if it can, is it just a copy of yourself?
0:30.8	Yes. So I've had a fascinating conversation, which will soon hear, with Darla Lajavardian. He's the co-founder of a
0:38.9	company, a startup called Delphi here in San Francisco. And they're an AI company that creates
0:43.9	digital clones of people. It's using AI to make replicas of you, so you can be you, kind of
0:51.8	more often all the time, a 24-hour, seven days a week, Katie Prescott, when you're asleep.
0:57.1	This is just the epitome of narcissism, isn't it?
1:00.2	The world needs more.
1:02.5	Yeah, exactly.
1:03.2	More me.
1:03.4	More me.
1:03.5	I need more cowbell.
1:08.3	Yeah, so do you know, so if you're sleeping, you're, you can create an AI bot that does your work, answers emails, talks to your mom, even makes a podcast.
1:17.1	Who knows?
1:17.7	So you can just enjoy your own company?
1:21.3	No, so the world can enjoy your company while you are asleep or while you are away or while you are busy.
1:28.8	We can have 24-7, Danny, if we want.
1:31.5	Yeah.
1:32.2	I mean, it does it make you think, is this actually what AI is for?
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