[Buttons840]

Yes, if you can get your system "in the middle". I would love to have an automated system that says, "please say your name and why you're calling and I will connect you", then relays that information to me, and I can choose to accept or reject the call. After a certain phone number has been accepted they wont have to hear that message again, so family and friends can reach me directly. That system would be 98% effective, and it doesn't even use machine learning! Problem is you cannot reasonably get a system like that "in the loop", you have no way to intercept calls, the phone service providers wont let you.

You could set up some elaborate system to proxy your calls through a call forwarding service, and then only give out the proxy number to people, but that wouldn't stop anyone who randomly calls your directly number and would be a big hassle to set up.

I've considered hacking something like this together for myself, except if I'm the only one doing it I can do something even simpler and just have the system say "please press 6 to be connected". The robocalls will be to dumb to figure it out, thus no more robocalls.

[CarVac]

Google Pixel phones have exactly that: call screening.

When you receive a call you can let the phone ask what the call is about and it will locally transcribe what they say back so you can decide whether or not to pick up.

[tantalor]

Offline???

[CarVac]

As in locally, not sent to Google.