AIs talking for us

A few weeks ago my phone rang and my Google Pixel phone automatically started screening the call like it always does. In 2025 I'd venture a guess that a huge chunk, if not most, of the phone calls anyone receives are pure spam. This feature has become amazing that scammers (or machines) end up talking to a robot until one side gives up. No matter what occurs I'm not disturbed and this little feature has saved me time.

This time however when I glanced down at my phone screening the call I saw words appearing of "Hey Connor, this is _ at _ and just calling back to help schedule..." and I was like wow this is a real call! I could end the robot chat immediately and take over the call to talk to the other end. This caught the person off guard, but a few seconds later it was just two humans chatting to schedule something.

I wondered how that person felt after we hung up. From their perspective they called me (a human) and instead got a robotic answer stalling the call asking why they were calling. Maybe that person didn't mind, but if I called someone and had to explain my intention to a robot I'd be a bit upset.

However, let me count my entire month of May & April call history and sum the calls:

• Spam - 25
• Screened - 10
• Real - 19 (18 girlfriend)

Spam calls are ones that Google has deemed are clearly spam and thus with the setting "Decline known spam" I never see those phone calls. Next up we have "screened" which means the screening process starts without my involvement, but is on the phone screen to monitor. Finally, a real call which suggests a contact on my phone and rings and answers like any other regular telephone call.

I think its kinda insane that most of my calls are scam calls - its annoying beyond belief and the rise of AI automatically screening calls has reduce some annoyance in my life and it's is a positive thing. I started wondering a future where AIs are talking to other AIs to aid a human's life.

Turns out there are entire protocols developing for AI to AI communication. Imagine a situation where an AI calls a hotel that lacks online booking for a reservation. Maybe both ends of the phone are AI and they discover they can move to a form of communication that encodes information in a more precise machine method. It would sound like gibberish to us humans, but those machines would be communicating faster with built in error correction.

The GitHub repository above shows a development where data is broken down and encoded into frequencies in order to transmit data. This is nothing really new when you consider that's how garage doors communicate, but imagine an AI designed to talk to humans that can evolve its communication to something more machine like if it determines the other end is also an AI.

If we move along from phone calls I've started noticing that my email will offer a summary via Gemini and even offer premade phrases to respond to said summarized message. I quickly disabled it because I still feel that's a part of AI I don't want, but it was also very interesting to think about. Are we getting to a point that messages will be summarized by AI to be responded with AI to be read via AI over n over? I have no idea if that is the future we are heading, but it seems odd.

Glad this blog is still written by a human for humans.