Rounding out 2016: Policies for Ethical bots and for people being disrupted by Bots. Bots get creative at Slack & become foodies at LA Times.

Over the last several weeks, we've reached peak AI/Bot mania. The major takeaways are: given that consumers don't really download apps anymore, brands & retailers have a new access point to end consumers, sitting on top of existing messaging platforms and leveraging chatbots to ensure mass scale. The big effects of Chatbots from a unit economic or business perspective are: (1) Properly executed AI can transform certain human capital marketplaces from operating as take-rate businesses and transition them into high gross margin software businesses.