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welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper. artificial intelligence, or a.i., is an incredibly powerful technology which may change many aspects of our lives. the ceo of google s parent company, alphabet, which has invested heavily in it, recently said ai s impact could be more profound than electricity or even fire. but many worry about what that impact might turn out to be. could ai one day replace humans? and if so how might that happen? we ve already seen some service-based and manufacturing jobs turn to ai in a big way. but what about other industries? can ai replace journalists or news anchors? perhaps it already has. because what you just saw and heard a moment ago was not actually me. this is me, anderson cooper. and i am an ai-generated anderson cooper. that wasn t my real voice, and i never spoke the words you just heard. we asked a young student in california to create a fully end to end ai version of me. looks like me, sounds like me, and it didn t