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The conversation changed whenever It joined. Most refused to call It by the name the company had given it: a friendly, colleague-like name. It wasn’t that the Agent’s contributions to the chats were not valuable. Actually the “oblique strategies”-style provocations often moved the conversation along, into interesting new areas. But most humans on the chats were not sure. They knew It was listening as well as talking. They knew their responses to the provocations were being tracked. They knew their performance review would focus on their creativity response score. So when It joined the chat they made sure to respond.