Unless you’re new to the planet, you know that soon you’ll be chatting away with artificially intelligent bots.

But the bot revolution will also usher in something strange: It will give us a bot to talk for us, as us. I call it a “me bot.”

A developer named Irene Chang (a.k.a. Irene Lion) created a “me bot” at the recent TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon in New York. The software is called the Chat Bot Club. It learns how you chat, then interacts with your friends as if it were you.

Chang used IBM’s Watson chatbot software to build the bot to work on the Cisco Spark platform. The software “learns” your style and creates a database of phrases and responses that you frequently use. It then participates in group chats as you.

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