Harris Simmons, chairman and CEO of $88 billion Zions Bancorp. in Salt Lake City, Utah, went to a meeting about three years ago of fellow bankers with Rohit Chopra, then the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Chopra brought up the blinking ellipsis used in messaging software, which banks use to let a customer know the chatbot is in the process of answering a question. In Simmons’ memory of the meeting, Chopra thought the ellipsis suggested there was a human at the other end of the conversation, and their use was therefore “unfair and deceptive.” Simmons, who wrote about…

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