The Aboard Podcast
AI Versus…Talking to People?
September 8, 2026
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31 min 16 sec
Problems with your boss? Why not fire up Claude and hit HR with a lengthy legalistic complaint? On this week’s episode, Paul and Rich look at the erosion of human-to-human communication in the AI era, springboarding off a friend’s anecdote about employees sending official-sounding LLM-generated documents to HR rather than starting with simple conversations. AI tools allow us to flood each others’ inboxes. Is that making it impossible to truly communicate?
Show Notes
- Paul’s writing for the Times.
- That’s Fhin.
- Rich is listening and learning: Target has many in-house designers for their dozens of “owned brands.”
Transcript
Transcript coming soon!