I Built AI Clones of My Coworkers. Things Got Weird

What moved

Brian Bot loved talking about improv, while Sophie Bot wouldn’t stop calling me “big dog.” Welcome to the future of work. WIRED issued this as an official post on 2026-09-22. The desk files the title and summary from the allow-listed official source, not a rewrite of claims the source did not make. No second outlet is added, and no launch is invented. The primary source stays on this page so the original wording remains the claim of record.

Why it matters

Brian Bot loved talking about improv, while Sophie Bot wouldn’t stop calling me “big dog.” Welcome to the future of work. That is a public note from WIRED, dated 2026-09-22.

On the record

• Filed from the WIRED official RSS on 2026-09-22.
• Primary source host: wired.com.
• Brian Bot loved talking about improv, while Sophie Bot wouldn’t stop calling me “big dog.” Welcome to the future of work.