Concerned about bots “impersonation”

Hi Chris! generally speaking, a part your specific experience, (I fully agree: as humans, we can’t “scale” over a thershold of one task at time, in my case :) ),

and even if I’m enthusiast on bots technologies innovation (I’m promoting an italian community about it: www.convcomp2016.it),

I’m a bit perplex about the recent days #personalbots applications fashion (just to mention two probably excellent products: Ghostbot, Olabot).

My concerns are about what I’d call #impersonation: I foresee a lot of headcaches managing possible identity thefts/privacy&security legal/ethical issues coming from chatbot impersonation of a phisical person.

Let’s consider what already happens with #twitterbots: I mean fake accounts ( = bots!) infesting twitter (e.g. #politicalbots supporting/following political leaders, famous brand or whatever). Another recent scandal:

Have personal bots got to be even banned by ourself (as bot developers, creators, innovators or just users) ?!

Probably #botiquette and #botethics are topics to be more discussed by chatbots community. I’m exaggerated with this worry ? Or getting old I’m just becoming more conservative ;-) ?