The overlords keep telling you it will be easier if you let them into your email and let them send messages on your behalf, but you don’t get it. Real people see through your laziness. If you want it to unsubscribe you from emails, great. But if you want something from somebody, just a tinge of effort is probably a better idea than relying on a summarization bot. Adult humans can tell the difference. AI isn’t as good as you think.
Someone messaged me on Instagram to come on my podcast. It wasn’t her, but I told her to email me the details. It sent me an email ten days ago, canned, but I responded with the booking information because she would have been a good guest if she had been even mildly invested in her own guesting. She never responded. It sent me the same email again yesterday. I flogged her in an email. She responded, “personally,” as she said, with an AI email. Bot culture is out of control.
Friends of mine comment on my LinkedIn, and I know it’s not them. When strangers do this, I block them, but with friends, I still bear the annoyance, though not for long. I know what my friends talk like, and it ain’t like that. Social media is a slog. Email is a constant deluge of garbage. I get it. But when you don’t parse who your robot responds to and why, you give up control of your personal humanity. A bit much, you say? I don’t think so. Once you start outsourcing business to your AI agent that you named Fluffernutter, your business is no longer yours.
Superhuman isn’t superhuman. It doesn't write better emails than you. We can still tell. I know most people don’t care because they think it’s saving them time. Technically, it is, but in the long run, this will alienate so many humans that you will have the time back, just no business left to do unless it’s B2B, bot-to-bot. We are running away from ourselves.
You don’t need suggestions on how to respond to your Aunt Mary. She deserves more than your bot.
© Jonathan Greene, October 28, 2026
