In the past few years there has been a rapid advancement in the field of AI. The concept of manufactured entities that can replicate human behaviours, speech, and emotions have been the stuff of legend, literally, with myths of the bronze protector Talos from Greek legend and Egyptian automatons dating back millennia. This presentation will go into how the legends have started to become closer to reality in recent years, with improvements in AI technology resulting in the rapid mainstream growth of AI personas and simulacra. This talk will focus on a high-level overview of the threats implicit with these AI personas and simulacra and broad suggestions of mitigations that can be taken to lessen their impacts.