Hey it's Evan, one of your former Long Form co-hosts and we have been extremely grateful for all the kind words from folks who have listened to Long Form over the years.

Some of you have asked what we're up to next now the long form has ended.

Well for my part, it's a new podcast.

You are about to hear a trailer for this new show, which I'm launching completely

independently and would love for you to follow and spread the word about.

It's called Shell Game and it starts July 9th.

If you love the stories you heard about over the years on Long Forum,

I think you'll love this too. Here it is.

Thanks for calling United Airlines.

I appreciate your help, but I would prefer to speak directly with a representative.

I'm having some issues with my flight booking that I think would be best resolved through a direct conversation.

That's me on the phone recently.

Well it's not really me. It's a clone of my voice being fully

controlled by an AI chatpot making a call using my phone number. I started playing around

voice cloning six months ago just for fun. But pretty soon I became

consumed with a question. What would happen if I made an artificial version of me and

set it loose in the world? Okay, fine. That was also a voice clone. This is me, for real. I promise I won't keep doing that.

I'm a journalist who's been writing about technology and its sometimes dark underbelly for a couple of decades.

You've no doubt heard about the latest debates around AI. Will it make us hyper productive or just take our jobs? Will it be

our trusty digital assistant or our super intelligent overlord or just fill the world with endless made up garbage.

Recently I decided to answer these questions by immersing myself,

replicating myself actually, in the form of cloned voice agents replacing myself

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