AI voice-calling agent has an unexpected side effect: making users call their parents more
TheTuringPost · x · 2026-10-01
A user shares an unexpected effect of letting their AI agent "dot" call their parents over the phone: it actually made them want to call their parents more often. The author's guess — if you have time to chat with a neural network, you certainly have time to talk to the people dearest to you.
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