SHELL GAME (Deep Dive): March 2025
This month we’re doing a deep dive into a single podcast: Shell Game. Shell Game delves into what would happen if you created a digital copy of yourself, powered by AI, and set it loose in the world. Evan Ratliff, longtime tech journalist, decided to find out. He combined a clone of his voice, an AI chatbot, and a phone line—many phone lines, actually—into what are called “voice agents.” Then for the six months, he sent them out… as himself.