Social Media tended consequences at not-insignificant rates. So I don’t expect someone of Michelle Obama’s stature to lead the charge. Instead, it will likely be people who are willing to take on some risk in return for a shot at pioneering a field where early adopt- ers could reap outsized rewards. My guess is that most will emerge from the ranks of social media. In part, this is because a chatbot like this could help address a common social media challenge. To show you what I mean, let’s imagine a fictional YouTube creator I’ll call Codysseus. Codys- seus is a twenty-five-year-old software developer who travels around North America in his van conversion, accompanied by his pet cat Clickbait. When Codysseus arrives at a new destination, he usually ends up staying in the most unique Airbnb he can find. When no rentals are available, he just stays in his van. Since remote computer work is not particularly cinematic, Codysseus also spends a fair amount of time exploring his latest habitat in search of material he can use in the weekly episodes he posts to YouTube. Sometimes he takes odd jobs in the hope of creating more fodder for his channel. Sometimes he gives seminars to the locals on how to approximate his digital nomad life. In the early days of his channel, Codysseus was vigilant about answering every viewer comment within twenty-four hours. He quickly learned that maintaining this high level of responsive- ness turned one-time viewers into repeat viewers, and repeat viewers into subscribers. But now that he has 150,000 sub- scribers and a new video can get upwards of 1000 comments, he has to leave more and more questions unanswered. 105