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The next frontier of online activism is ‘woke’ chatbots:

These sorts of repetitive, exhausting social media tasks — rallying the community, calling for action, facing down the angry @-replies of haters and critics — have long been the undertaking of activists themselves. But there’s a growing understanding that this work takes a lot of time, not to mention a profound emotional and psychological toll. And bots, of all things, could be the ones to absorb that kind of emotional labor.

“The best thing about bots is they never get tired, bored or upset,” said Darius Kazemi, a bot programmer and one half of Feel Train. “They have infinite energy, whereas humans need to take breaks to take care of ourselves. A human activist can’t be ‘on’ 24/7, but a bot can.”