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This was touched on in Bruce Sterling's Bicycle Repairman:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_Repairman

In it, people have 'mooks'. Your mook is an AI that represents you to other people.

The main character is too off-grid to maintain his mook so it dies of neglected insanity.

But everyone around him is fighting to hide the fact that a Senator is so senile he only repeats everything his mook says. A mook is running the government.