HR Besties: AI Anxiety
HR BESTIES
HR Besties LLC
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Hey big boy
- Cringe corporate speak: I know just enough to be dangerous
- Hot topic: all about AI anxiety: what does AI in the workforce mean for your job, your company and your future
- What is driving the anxiety around AI in the workplace?
- How to manage AI stress at work
- Normalizing conversations and open discussions about AI within an organization is important to help manage AI fear and hesitancy
- Treating AI as an enforcement, not a replacement
- Cautiously embracing AI as a tool instead of fearing it
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, big boy. |
| 0:08.5 | It's an interesting way to start off the pod, right? |
| 0:13.5 | Wow. Hello. |
| 0:15.4 | This is an amazing story that came from a friend of the pod. And let me just say, all three of us were probably in tears when we heard the story, |
| 0:24.7 | but also not surprised, okay? |
| 0:26.5 | Not surprised in the slightest. |
| 0:28.7 | So the friend was on a call with a potential client. |
| 0:33.3 | They always used their AI note taker to make sure that they're getting everything. |
| 0:38.0 | Because of course, you know, I know we, us elder millennials on this podcast, we like to take |
| 0:43.4 | notes. But having the AI note taker helps because I miss things or I'm also a terrible |
| 0:49.0 | speller. So it records, you know, with a conversation and helps. So when you want to send like an email, |
| 0:56.5 | post conversation, you have your bullet points all nights and organized. Thanks, AI. Taking my job |
| 1:03.4 | again. Okay. So my friend goes and proceeds to pull up the conversation from the call the next morning to write a nice thank you email. |
| 1:15.9 | Let me summarize what we talked about, right? |
| 1:17.9 | And they realized the recording was so much longer than their, you know, 45-minute phone call conversation. |
| 1:24.4 | And he was like, oh, crap, it actually recorded this guy, like his whole rest of his |
| 1:31.2 | four to five hour day, right? |
| 1:34.0 | What? |
| 1:34.5 | Once again, no big deal. |
| 1:36.4 | I don't need that part. |
| 1:37.6 | I'm going to scrap it. |
| 1:38.8 | However, immediately after that 45-minute call, the AI turns to, hey big boy, and rolls into, what's your dream video? |
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