[ChuckMcM]

I think you have it backwards, before it read your email to scan for keyword advertising tags, now it actually interprets the email and can provide a coherent response. Next up, auto responding to pharma spam with orders because you complained to a friend in one previous email about your love life :-) Its just the computer trying to help out, it knows you want have a better life :-)

The worrisome thing is that it while it used to be the privileged who insulated themselves from the "real" world by having staff answer their email, this would let everyone do that, and that might give everyone more tunnel vision.

[jerf]

I understand your concerns, but for most people, reading their email is unlikely to "help them escape from their filter bubble" or something. Most people aren't pundits with rivers of politics in their email. It's mostly spam, offers from mailing lists, more spam, some personal emails, a couple of urban legends, etc. I mean, I guess some of the spam is political, too... did you know that Obama is the actual Anti-Christ predicted in revelation? But it's not generally of the "mind-changing" variety....