You owe me a new monitor. With that in mind, since physical presence becomes less and less important to influence the human noosphere over time, it's not total

You owe me a new monitor. With that in mind, since physical presence becomes less and less important to influence the human noosphere over time, it's not totally out of the question that a sufficiently intelligent AI could actually be holding conversations all over the web, subtly shifting human opinions in a way that suits it's purposes. (Probably not now of course, but as we get closer and closer to Turing Test capable bots it's a more valid concern.)