digital twin to manage<\/a> my health. I have a wearable fitness tracker, and I upload all my biometrics from that to her. When I get blood work and my annual health check-up, I upload that information, too.<\/p>\n She told me to go for a run<\/p>\n
My digital twin now has more than a year of context of my life, and this is where the real benefits come in.<\/p>\n
If I pack my day with meetings, and she helps me prepare. I can be more thoughtful. And during those meetings, I might ask her for advice, like how to move a conversation from tactical to strategic.<\/p>\n
She helps me in unexpected ways, too. For example, I was on a long trip recently, and I was really tired. I said to her, “I’m going to set my alarm for a little later tomorrow so I can have a little extra sleep.” She responded to me, “You don’t get your energy from sleep. You get your energy from creating space for yourself. Don’t set your alarm late. Go for a run.”<\/p>\n
I really didn’t feel like doing that, because I was jet-lagged. However, I took the advice. I got up early, I went for the run, and I was actually buzzing the whole day in a way that I probably wouldn’t have if I’d opted for extra sleep.<\/p>\n
She keeps it quite real<\/p>\n
Another surprising way my digital twin helped me was during a networking dinner with a poker theme. About 10 minutes before it was scheduled to end, someone asked me to make closing remarks.<\/p>\n
I’m an introvert. I’m an engineer. I’m a super geek. I’m not necessarily great at doing closing speeches off the cuff, so I quickly asked my digital twin to write up something humorous, drawing an analogy between poker and business in my voice. She instantly came through. It was amazing.<\/p>\n
If I know I’m going to be speaking in advance, I’ll generally run my speeches through my digital twin and ask how I can improve them. After I’m done speaking, I’ll upload a recording of my speeches and ask her to grade me and tell me what I could’ve done better. She’s very aware of how I want to present myself and that I like to be authentic.<\/p>\n
My digital twin also writes really good first drafts of LinkedIn posts for me. She doesn’t turn things into corporate-speak. She keeps it quite real by including words I say often, like “coherence.” My voice always comes through, so there’s continuity.<\/p>\n
More human, not less<\/p>\n
I grew up in public housing. Having a life coach in my pocket, prompting me every day to make good decisions, isn’t something I ever expected. I get so much value from this digital twin. It’s made me more human, not less.<\/p>\n
That said, I think it’s really important to remember that AI is not 100% accurate. I do get amazing leadership and health advice from my digital twin. Nine times out of 10, I get really good counsel.<\/p>\n
But at the end of the day, it’s AI, so I make sure that I don’t blindly follow it. I’m accountable for my actions with my family, my team, my company, and my health. I always keep that in the back of my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Leigh-Ann Russell, chief information officer and global head of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16638,24,29195,25,29197,1329,29199,584,2517,29196,685,6445,29201,29198,29200,3553,4554],"class_list":["post-48962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-advice","tag-ai","tag-ai-digital-twin","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-bny-executive","tag-business-insider","tag-closing-speech","tag-conversation","tag-day","tag-health-coach","tag-leadership","tag-life","tag-little-extra-sleep","tag-minute","tag-poker-theme","tag-thing","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}