Interesting thought about malicious AI doing blackmail. But it would go FAR beyond just “sending and receiving email.” Think of all the malicious “evidence” it could instantly fabricate (writings, history going back to the earliest days of your life, legal documents, video, photos, fake emails) to ruin you. We are entering a period in human history where nothing will be believable.
Just look at the clumsy Steele “dossier” that Hillary and DNC paid to have fabricated to get rid of Trump. It took a lot of manpower and money to put that together and it was ludicrous in so many respects. That could be fabricated by AI in minutes with a much more believable trail of evidence with tentacles reaching everywhere. Not today, but a decade hence? 20 years?
That's a good point. The reason I (and many others I know) do not purchase any cable packages other than basic Internet is because the we don't believe anything coming from the major news sources.