AI Phone Screening and the Dead Internet Theory

the dead internet theory is about to happen to phone calls... in the next 12 months, a personal AI agent will screen all your calls by talking to the caller's AI agent here's how it works as of today: - iphone asks unknown callers to state their name - you manually decide to answer or not - still requires human judgment 6 months from now: - your AI answers every unknown call - talks to whoever's calling (human or AI) - decides if you need to know about it - only rings through if it passes the test 12 months from now: - spam callers deploy AI that sounds human - your screening AI talks to their spam AI - neither side involves a human anymore - 99% of phone calls are just bots talking to bots the phone network will still work, but it will basically go dead for human communication. and this isn't theoretical anymore... PolyAI's voice AI is already embedded in Gordon Ramsay's entire restaurant group when you call to book a table: the AI answers, takes your reservation, asks about dietary restrictions, confirms the booking, and sends you a text confirmation. it all happens without transferring you to a human being and the same thing happens at marriott and caesar's palace Poly handles millions of calls, takes the full conversation, completes the transaction, and updates the system 24/7 the infrastructure for dead phone theory already exists it's just being used for reservations right now...