Welcome to the age of omnipresent suspicion

A few days ago, I attended a conference where the speaker read his talk off his note cards. I immediately recognized ChatGPT’s fingerprints: “and this is where it gets interesting,” “it’s not X, it’s Y”… The topic was management, a field that already generates plenty of hot air without any help from machines. With AI in the mix, I tuned out after a couple of minutes. Had he spoken from an outline in his head, he would almost certainly have been liv...