The Bot Has an Email Address. Nobody Answers It.
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Google gave its agents an identity: an email address, a calendar, Drive storage, and a seat in the company directory. This essay, written in the first person after Eli Tan's account of handing his life to Meta's Muse, argues that the identity is accountability theater. The agent gets a receipt for everything it does, a cryptographic trail, and insurance, but the loop has no human in it and nobody answers. The contrast is a machine that says "I don't know." The piece closes as a pitch to the company that built the machine that answers honestly.
Author: Newhall, Stanley Clark, MD, JD
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225823654
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