Ask HN: Will "indirect phones" replace today's phones?
1 amichail 3 6/26/2025, 1:54:36 PM
With an indirect phone, you’d never speak directly to anyone.
Instead, you’d talk to an AI that serves as your communicator.
When someone calls, the AI answers and later relays a summary of the message to you. You can ask the AI for more details about what the caller said.
If you want to reply, you do so via the AI.
For example: “Tell Joe that we can have a business meeting on Tuesday.”
Do you think such indirect phones would become popular?
If so, that will be a shame for me as it would reduce the amount of human communication I have. Indirect communication is reduced communication.