Welcome back to Dear EverMore! In this episode, our founders Scott, Courtney, and Kelsey talk about AI — especially around the fear of how this will impact work and if AI will really take our jobs. We hear this fear a lot in our social networks, and it’s a real one. However, we think AI is a great tool to make our work better, so we have more time to be creative and come up with ideas.

This is a multi-part conversation — make sure to follow or subscribe so you don’t miss part 2 around how AI will affect the future of work and our advice for how to harness it to make your career better.

What we share + talk about:

• What AI is genuinely good at today — pattern recognition, synthesizing or compressing information, and being a thought partner. Think of AI like a bicycle: it doesn’t replace your legs, but it can help you get there faster.
• Where people are overestimating AI — it can’t produce original insight, handle long-term reasoning, provide accountability, make ethical judgments, or offer contextual empathy. AI recombines what already exists; it can’t create something truly novel.
• The creativity concern — if electricity went out tomorrow and we started over, we’d still have creative thinkers, but AI wouldn’t be able to create anything from the ether. AI should remove tedious tasks so people can be more creative, and we believe the extra time should go back to you for thinking time, not be repurposed for more work in the antiquated 9-to-5.
• The layoff mistake — we’ve seen companies lay off workers expecting AI to replace them. However, Salesforce recently admitted they regretted their layoffs due to negative customer experiences. There’s a mismatch: people want AI to better their work and experiences, not replace the human element.
• AI amplifying bias — we’re concerned about how AI will amplify the bias in our data: in the responses it gives that could shape worldviews, in decision-making tools, and in how it engages with people. When bad decision-making from leaders and work systems is the foundation, building AI on top of it only makes it worse.

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