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=== User: A day before the start of our Digital Innovation course at @UL SEB, I’ve sent connection invites to students. ===
A day before the start of our Digital Innovation course at @UL SEB, I’ve sent connection invites to students. 
Well, I gave my agent (Comet) access to my (basic, free) Linkedin account and the names of all students and asked it to check the profiles, and (if affiliated with UL SEB) send them the invites. 
It did reasonably well. About half of the students received the invite (some of the non-recepients do not have Linkedin profiles, have multiple names, or did not yet add UL SEB as ‘education’).
This example served as a great starting point for discussion in Digital Innovation class in terms of how advertising revenue model could be severely affected (if agents click, people don’t see ads), business model of social media could be disrupted (likes and messages are no longer a sign of attention) and the questionably value of behaviour analysis based on computer use, running A/B experiments on social media etc. 
Further though, it also brings questions regarding
# Ethics: is it ethical to “pretend” to be a professor sending invites to students? The students were mis-lead to believe that I checked their profiles and showed ‘genuine interest’
# Privacy: I gave my agent the list of all students in class
In terms of ethics, I personally considered this to be ethical: my agent did what I would do anyway. I am genuinely interested in connecting with current students to see how they progress throughout their careers.
Further, I did afterwards ‘manually’ checked all profiles and all sent invitations (yes, this particular Gen-AI activity meant more effort for me). 
Also, I informed all students about my action during our first meeting on the very next day.
What I would consider unethical (although an agent is capable of doing it): search for first year master’s students at UL SEB (or last year undergrads at other European universities), send them invites and then tailored-made personalized invitation to enrol in my course.
Any thoughts on that?