WHEN ROBOTS CAN SUCCESSFULLY MASQUERADE AS HUMANS: “Google showed off a computer assistant that makes convincingly human-sounding phone calls , at least in its prerecorded demonstration. But the real people in those calls didn’t seem to be aware they were talking to a machine. That could present thorny issues for the future use of AI. Among them: Is it fair—or even legal—to trick people into talking to an AI system that effectively records all of its conversations? And while Google’s demonstration highlighted the benign uses of conversational robots, what happens when spammers and scammers get hold of them?”