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Chatbots as an instance of an artificial intelligence coach 59 will be able to reference skills and learning from previous leaders, now dead, to guide us in our decisions (Burden & Savin-Baden, 2019). Burden and Savin-Baden suggest that our chatbot coach of the future will be able to take on a variety of visual, auditory or textual forms with the option to have embodiment within a virtual or physical world. They will draw on a huge data pool of our lives, including our decisions, actions, inactions, emo- tions, environments, health, skillsets and our augmented mind and body parts. They will be able to communicate »naturally« and hold their own mind and opinion on a topic. They will even be imaginative and witty at times. Imag- ine an AI coach with these characteristics! Even more reason to carefully con- sider the role of AI in our lives before our helpful virtual assistants and chatbot coaches glide towards demonstrating sentience and self-awareness (Burden & Savin-Baden, 2019). So how far are we from an AGI chatbot coach? Gartner’s 2018 hype cycle on emerging technologies paints a dystopian picture as illustrated in Figure 2. AGI is firmly in the first (innovation) stage and is more than ten years away from the plateau of productivity. Some say we will not experience AGI in our lifetime. Figure 2: Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies (Gartner, 2018) Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0