Virtual avatars, designed based on social media analytics, are now hired as models and brand representatives. Pop stars and their music can now be algorithmically manufactured in entirety from an executive's office. In the course Machined Influencers we will critically examine the historical and future role of these new culture influencers, both real and imagined, from youtube stars to Washington DC. Using machine learning as a design medium, we will explore future autonomous avatar representations (beyond the human), AI behaviors, neural networked systems, and interactive media. Students will design new machined autonomies, crafting their experiential platform to perform an online and offline display of their identity systems, cultural values, and interaction guidelines. How can design learn from influencers, as a vehicle to embed ideals, scale a point of view, and foster change? How will these machined influencers (crafted within the internet) change how we see ourselves, our desires, our communities, our borders, our countries, and our world?