Stanford and Google DeepMind researchers have created AI that can replicate human personalities with uncanny accuracy after just a two-hour conversation.  By interviewing 1,052 people from diverse backgrounds, they built what they call “simulation agents” – digital copies that could predict their human counterparts’ beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors with remarkable consistency. To create the digital copies, the team uses data from an “AI interviewer” designed to engage participants in natural conversation.  The AI interviewer asks questions and generates personalized follow-up questions – an average of 82 per session – exploring everything from childhood memories to political views. Through these two-hour…