by Laura Preston for n+1 I'm not a bot is exactly what a bot would say Published in Issue 44 : Middlemen The recruiter was a chipper woman with a master’s degree in English. Previously she had worked as an independent bookseller. “Your experience as an English grad student is ideal for this role,” she told me. The position was at a company that made artificial intelligence for real estate. They had developed a product called Brenda , a conversational AI that could answer