The Dark Side of Chatbots

When chatbots start replacing workers at scale, one of the most vulnerable job titles out there will be pig-butchery scammer. The scammer comes off as empathetic, plugged in, perhaps smitten, and sometimes scolding by phantom profits. As costs collapse, the revenue threshold for profitable attacks will also plummet. Eventually, most vulnerable people with the tiniest savings will enter the sites of the digital butchers.