[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-most-calls-to-ai-assistants-include-a-please-or-thank-you":10,"sections":40},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":35,"feedback":39,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":39,"total_tokens":39},12531,"most-calls-to-ai-assistants-include-a-please-or-thank-you","Most Calls to AI Assistants Include a Please or Thank You","A fonio.ai survey found 7 in 10 calls to AI assistants included a please or thank you, and 12% of callers apologized to the machine.","About 7 in 10 calls to AI assistants in a new fonio.ai survey of British users included a \"please\" or \"thank you\". The headline number is a share of calls, not a share of all Brits.\n\nThe company broke the habits down further. Among callers, 55% thanked the AI at least once, and 52% opened with a \"hello\", \"hi\" or \"good morning\". Some 13% said goodbye before hanging up, and a further 7% went longer, with something like \"have a good day\" or \"take care\". About one in eight callers (12%) apologized to the assistant, and 2% asked how it was doing.\n\nThe wording matters because the data describes calls and callers, which points to voice assistants rather than typed chatbots. Speaking aloud may pull people toward ordinary conversational manners more than typing does. fonio.ai co-founder Daniel Keinrath said there is \"something very British about thanking a machine\" and that the habits show how naturally voice technology is becoming part of everyday life. That reading comes from the company that ran the survey.\n\nA separate survey from February 2026 gives a useful comparison. Future PLC polled more than 1,000 people and found that around 70% are polite to AI, with 12% saying they are polite in case of a robot uprising. The two 70% figures measure different things, calls in one case and people in the other, and the two 12% figures describe different behavior. Together they suggest politeness is mostly habit, with a small group hedging its bets.\n\nPoliteness also has a price for the companies running these systems. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said that thank-yous cost \"tens of millions of dollars\" in electricity bills. A reflex that people carry over from human conversation, and that the 2% asking how the AI is doing are unlikely to be practicing as insurance, may be hard for any product team to design out.","[\"ai\",\"voice-assistants\",\"survey\",\"uk\"]","2026-11-07T09:00:00.000Z","2026-11-08T07:39:47.703Z","2026-11-08T07:39:50.378Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Delete the line 'Neither summary we reviewed gave a sample size for the fonio.ai study', which admits missing source material instead of removing or sourcing the claim, and name the February 2026 survey's publisher (Future PLC, which owns TechRadar Pro) rather than leaving it as an unnamed 'separate' survey. 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