Aspiring entrepreneurs are raving about this $699 Harvard course taught by AI clones

It’s an eight-week boot camp where Harvard Business School faculty are constantly available—or at least, their AI avatars are.

Creating artificially intelligent dupes of real people is . . . off-putting, to say the least. AI stand-ins for actors, like Val Kilmer’s posthumous AI-powered performance in the film As Deep as the Grave, have largely been deemed to be in poor taste. AI clones of pastors and tech executives are similarly divisive.