Opinion: I built AI clones of my coworkers and they turned out weird

Colleagues reacted negatively: Brian called the experiment a “nightmare,” and Sophie described her bot as “a bitch.” A friend who calls himself “Chip” claims his own AI assistant, built with Gemini’s Gem feature, makes him more efficient, echoing a Boston Consulting Group paper that found managers caught 18 % fewer errors in work labeled as coming from an AI employee. The piece also cites McKinsey’s claim that its workforce now includes 40,000 humans and 20,000 AI agents, aiming for a 1:1 ratio by year‑end. The author concludes that while the bots were occasionally helpful, they underscored the limits of AI coworkers and the need to retain human judgment.