July 27, 2026

AI Is Changing How We Talk to Each Other...And It's Annoying

AI Is Changing How We Talk to Each Other...And It's Annoying

In this episode, Kaila and Kyle discuss how AI is starting to impact how we communicate with one another at work. There are both obvious and subtle ways in which the technology is affecting how we speak, and Kaila and Kyle have some strong feelings about it.

00:00 Intro

00:18 The problem

04:04 How we got here

09:41 The inciting concern about how we talk to chatbots

13:05 Another communication heuristic that has been altered by AI

15:56 How using AI can be corrosive to work relationships

21:11 The linguistic tip-offs that signal something might have been written by AI

23:35 Another way that AI is changing how we speak

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