Harvard is selling a US$699 course taught by AI clones of its faculty

Bussgang is one of several teachers who volunteered to help create AI clones of themselves for a new eight-week entrepreneurship boot camp, which costs US$699 (RM2,814). — CASSANDRA KLOS/The New York Times

I’ve just started a video call with a general partner at a venture capital firm. “Whenever you’re ready, please start your pitch,” he says.

For a reporting experiment, I am playing the role of a hopelessly delusional tech founder. As I outline my plan to build an “Uber for bananas,” his calm, polite smile doesn’t move. Neither do the small shadows cast by the drape of his shirt. His shoulders hover back and forth just slightly – and a little too consistently. Because while it looks like I’m talking with Jeff Bussgang, the co-founder of Flybridge Capital and a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, I’m actually talking with his AI-generated video avatar.