Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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soon as I do — watch this. If for those of you watching I'll just modify my face into a zombie face and watch how immediately alarming it is. Because if I act like a zombie you are — all of your instincts say wait it looks like a person but it's not acting like a person. Ah it's creepy, right? But AI is right on the edge of getting past the valley, past the creepy part. I would argue they're still…

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ink that I would find that comforting for the thought of my own death? That there would be something about me that would be as permanent and would remember me better than children. And it would also be born in my image like children. It's entirely possible that your AI companion will be in your will someday. Like you'll create a trust or an estate and the estate will form a trust that keeps the robot that remembers you alive forever. Yeah, because that's what I'm going to do. I promise you I'm really going to do this.

And by the way I've been saying this for 20 years. Anybody who's been following me you know I've been saying this. When the technology is there I am going to build a replica of myself. We're maybe one month away. I mean we're basically there. To me it's really down to which app I use, right? I think we're already there. It's down to I think at the moment you might have to combine a few apps but once it's just one app and you just tell it what you want it to be, I'm doing it right away.

Will I sell copies of my robot? Well that's an excellent question. If I create a replica of myself will I be able to copyright it? Will I be able to claim IP control of it? Or could anybody just clone it and say oh I like this personality I'll use it for my robot? I know I might be able to protect it. You know I don't think so at the moment but I could imagine future law making it a protectable right. It's imaginable. Yeah. And get royalties from it, etc.

How do you know it's not already? Well here's a little something I told the locals people the other day in a man cave event. There will be a point in your future in the next year. YouTube, listen to this. When I will be using a different software. So I'll be using one interface to all of the platforms now. If I use the — it's going to be the Rumble Studio. It's just coming online. It's in beta right now. But when I start using the Rumble Studio, which I've tested, it's awesome, I'll have one interface. But that interface unlike what I'm using now I could run a video and you would think it was live because you would just turn it on and you'd see me and you wouldn't know if it — you would not know if it's recorded or real. You would just be watching the show because I would just do a recording of me doing the show and then I would play it at the time it started. You would know the difference? There's no indication.

Now do you think I could also do that by having an AI do my entire show, turn it into a video in one minute, right? I could have my AI learn everything about me and how I analyze things. Then I could say go read the news and put together the next episode of Coffee with Scott Adams. Create an avatar. This looks and sounds exactly like me. And then do the whole show including all the mannerisms like including all my weird tics and you know blowing my nose and every other human thing I do. Do you thi

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nk you could tell the difference? At the moment yes. If I did this literally tomorrow with the current technology yes you could tell the difference. Do you think you'll be able to tell in a year? A year from now do you think I'd be able to pull that off and you wouldn't know the difference? All right, I'm going to make a promise to you. You're going to see a fake, a completely deepfake version of…

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