Email may become an agent-to-agent transport layer, pushing trust to human-only channels
YogeshMalik · x · 2026-10-27
Yogesh Malik offers a forward-looking take: as AI agents take over routine communication, email could degrade into a mere agent-to-agent transport protocol, like SMTP running under the hood. Trust and persuasion would then migrate to channels that remain expensive to automate—live calls, face-to-face meetings, handwritten notes, visibly human-created messages, and reputation.
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