{"id":243683,"date":"2026-09-05T01:17:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/ai-digital-twins-struggle-to-predict-human-behavior-creating-funhouse-mirror-distortions"},"modified":"2026-09-05T01:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:17:30","slug":"ai-digital-twins-struggle-to-predict-human-behavior-creating-funhouse-mirror-distortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/ai-digital-twins-struggle-to-predict-human-behavior-creating-funhouse-mirror-distortions","title":{"rendered":"AI digital twins struggle to predict human behavior, creating \u2018funhouse mirror\u2019 distortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-digital-twins-struggle-to-predict-human-behavior-creating-funhouse-mirror-distortions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While many fear artificial intelligence will replace humans, using AI to take over some human roles has benefits. Companies can use the technology to conduct surveys and polls, while behavioral scientists can run experiments on digital twins to gather faster insights without risking harm or distress to real participants.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s a huge snag.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s digital twins are just not up to it. New research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aeh8260\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Science Advances<\/i> found that digital twins seriously misrepresent human behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many fear artificial intelligence will replace humans, using AI to take over some human roles has benefits. Companies can use the technology to conduct surveys and polls, while behavioral scientists can run experiments on digital twins to gather faster insights without risking harm or distress to real participants. But there\u2019s a huge snag. Today\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}