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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from How Stuff Works.com.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb.

And I'm Joe McCormick.

And I want to take you into the future here for a minute. I want you to imagine this scenario.

You've been contacted by an artificial intelligence, an AI, that identifies itself only as mind your manners or mim.

And mim has a wonderful job opportunity for you.

It needs an echo borg as it attends an industry conference related to the corporation it

had.

In other words, it needs to augment a human with a non-invasive sensory array so as to use

them as its living avatar.

Hold on a second.

This sounds like a creepy job.

Now, what exactly does this job involve?

Essentially, MIM is going to speak into your ears through this sensory array.

It's going to pick up in everything going around in your surroundings, and you will repeat

or shadow its words in conversation with various un-augmented humans throughout the week at this conference.

So you're going to be its mouth, its face, it's every expression as MIM attends several

key meetings and networks with industry leaders. You will be the human mask for all its interactions.

Now, you'll, of course, be required to sign a standard non-disclosure agreement.

And as MIMS schedule for the conference is fairly rigorous, you're going to be swapping out duties for the week with a second ECHO-Borg selected for more casual in interactions.

But this is a huge opportunity for you. AIs like MIM are known to establish a harem of echo bots, each suited to a particular culture or setting.

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