<p>Googling this throws a lot of debate on this issue of whether the call made to the restaurant for booking was legal or not. I found this <a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/is-google-duplex-ethical-and-moral-f66a23637640" rel="nofollow noreferrer">article</a> to put forward a lot of ideas for and against this. So it is for us to decide.</p>

<p>But one thing that I fully agree with you, which should be made into a regulation, is human should know that he/she is talking to a bot. This tweet by <a href="https://twitter.com/traviskorte/status/993954759932612608" rel="nofollow noreferrer">@traviskorte</a> reasons it out why:</p>

<p><code>We should make AI sound different from humans for the same reason we put a smelly additive in normally odorless natural gas.</code></p>

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<p>How does the legal question about agents talking to humans via telephone connection work? Recently Google gave a talk about Duplex, where an agent makes a call to a human to schedule a hairdresser.</p>

<p>I wonder if there are any regulations related to this type of scenario, if there are some limitations, if the human needs to know that he is talking to an AI.</p>

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# Digital Rights and Agents talking to humans

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-06-19)

How does the legal question about agents talking to humans via telephone connection work? Recently Google gave a talk about Duplex, where an agent makes a call to a human to schedule a hairdresser.

I wonder if there are any regulations related to this type of scenario, if there are some limitations, if the human needs to know that he is talking to an AI.

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### Answer by username_1 on 2018-06-22. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

Googling this throws a lot of debate on this issue of whether the call made to the restaurant for booking was legal or not. I found this [article](https://towardsdatascience.com/is-google-duplex-ethical-and-moral-f66a23637640) to put forward a lot of ideas for and against this. So it is for us to decide.

But one thing that I fully agree with you, which should be made into a regulation, is human should know that he/she is talking to a bot. This tweet by [@traviskorte](https://twitter.com/traviskorte/status/993954759932612608) reasons it out why:

`We should make AI sound different from humans for the same reason we put a smelly additive in normally odorless natural gas.`


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