I can totally imagine a Chinese chat bot that DMs citizens pretending to be an old classmate or colleagues long forgotten and chatting them up while trying to sus out who isn’t compliant and supportive enough of the state.
Can we do anything to better prepare users for this kind of attack? Better bot detection? Or are we doomed to a dystopian future where any interaction not in person is suspect and then, once the androids arrive, even those will be also.