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by rmason 1039 days ago
Imagine a time, not too far into the future when there are thirty people running for president and they all have bots who want to engage with you. Guess then you could create your own bot to keep them all busy;<).
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In this future, how would you run your bot, when only locked-down devices exist (or are able to connect to the Google Web)?
Plus, if you don't read or listen to their messages then your device will alert the authorities and shut down.
No, the device will just give you a lower social credit score if you don’t listen to the messages. All run by non-goverment organizations, of course, so it’s all legal.
I mean, we already can have someone asking his bot "turn these bullet points into a proper email" and the receiver asking her bot "summarize this email".
We know we've lost if we were to reach the point where anyone would ask a bot how we should vote (and then follow the bot's recommendation) :/