@foolishowl

Nowadays...

1. Crime scales. Criminals can automate contact with people, and easily do it to people in almost any country.

2. Email and the Web aren't a refuge. The tech culture that promoted easy-to-use trust tools has collapsed; can-do has been replaced with cynicism.

You are right to think we are in a bad place with trustworthy communication. I remember those days when phone calls were generally valid.

@drahardja An AI has nothing to lose (or win) except for its maker's bottom line; no experience. Profit alone cannot drive true intelligence that is respectful of life.

Even if those products had those things, they would still not be discrete beings like the AIs in most science fiction. Even a "digital ghost" flitting through systems is described through the language of embodiment.