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What happened
The Prime Minister of Malaysia announced he will deploy an AI avatar — a digital copy of himself — to interact with citizens and handle government services. It will look like him, sound like him, and respond to people's questions on his behalf.
Why it matters
The context behind the story.
This is the first time a sitting head of government has officially replaced part of their public-facing role with an AI clone. It opens up genuinely strange questions: if you're getting help from your government, do you have a right to know you're talking to a machine? And if the AI makes a mistake or says something wrong — who is responsible, the prime minister or the algorithm?
Takeaway
A world leader just made an AI copy of himself for public duty. Government just got a lot harder to define.
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