Using bots to Improve Humanity
summary
Shows concrete implementations and outcomes: simple Slackbot trigger-response pages and Node-based Botkit (npm install botkit) are used to auto-correct language in channels — 18F reports positive effects — Hoodie runs a customized IRC/Slack bot in production. Twitter experiments include Nigel Leck’s scrape-and-reply bot (suspended for spam) and the 101-a-tron → Stay Woke Bot fed from a Google Spreadsheet that currently auto-responds to followers; Slack works well, Twitter is hit-or-miss. Also mentions CI commit checks for problematic language.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:16Using bots to improve humanity - @GemBarrett
- 1:41Problem
- 3:56Solution
- 6:04Customised Slackbot
- 7:30Current uses
- 8:55Twitter troll-fighting
- 10:07Twitterbots teaching: climate change
- 11:03Twitterbots teaching: feminism
- 12:17Twitterbots teaching: Black Lives Matter
- 13:42Outcomes
- 14:44The future of bots and humanity
- 16:01Say No to thankless emotional labour, build a bot to do it for you.
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