KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians can now interact with PMX.AI, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s artificial intelligence (AI) double that looks and sounds exactly like the man himself.

In a social media post on Saturday (Jul 18) evening, Anwar encouraged Malaysians to chat with his avatar on messaging platform WhatsApp to “begin fostering fresh ideas and meaningful public discourse for our nation and its people”.

The post contains a video portraying Anwar as different characters - from an astronaut soaring through outer space, to a superhero jumping out of a plane with a Captain America-like shield, and what looked to be a younger version of himself leaping across rooftops in a Spiderman-like outfit.

It describes this method of reaching out to Malaysians as the “evolution of national communications”.

The avatar says it is “inspired” by Anwar’s values and vision.

“AI opens a new dimension,” says Anwar’s AI double, pledging to hear people’s voices and better understand their aspirations. “No leader can be everywhere at once.”

The video shows the avatar flipping through books in the prime minister’s office in Putrajaya, before it turned into a younger version of Anwar in a library, conjuring up books in a spell.

The video also includes references to the Avengers superhero film franchise. It shows multiple versions of Anwar’s avatar walking in a line and captioned “assemble!”, and ended with a reference to the “Madani multiverse”.

Anwar’s unity government is also called the Madani government.

“What if all these sides of me could be present at the same time,” the avatar adds, calling itself a “digital extension of (Anwar)”.

“Ready to listen, assist and serve the people.”

Anwar’s Facebook post on the launch included a WhatsApp message hyperlink for people to communicate with his AI avatar.

"SECOND BRAIN"

PMX.AI can interact with voters, listen to their concerns and gather ground sentiment, according to Zetrix AI, the Malaysian digital infrastructure firm that built Anwar's avatar. 

The AI double is so named because Anwar is Malaysia’s 10th prime minister.

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