> an ai is oddly well suited to this job. cassandra doesn’t want a promotion and doesn’t need the people in the channel to like her. disagreeing with the vp thr

> an ai is oddly well suited to this job. cassandra doesn’t want a promotion and doesn’t need the people in the channel to like her. disagreeing with the vp three times this month won’t show up in a performance review. she doesn’t have an ego invested in being right either. if she objects to a project in january and the data proves her wrong in march, she can just say so. being wrong should make her model of the company better. This is true, in terms of personal risk, but it also misses something subtle I think I have observed in the last ~year or two. I have been a nag on issues for years to be ignored or dismissed without even really listening before an AI flags the exact same thing by the exact same person I've told this to a dozen times, and they act like it's some profound new discovery that must be acted on immediately. I thought it was my delivery style, or maybe bad communication, but I've noticed this same thing with a handful of other people too, with myself entirely out of the loop. We talked about it, and what I think it is, is a human ego/relationship thing - being told something is wrong or bad or pointing out 'negative' things requires the other party to concede something, and the mental effect is they feel they 'lost' something (the argument, political capital, ego, whatever) to the cassandra party. You can quietly and privately concede to an AI's criticism without feeling that way, and even better for some types, claim the idea as your own if you want, so it's much more receivable. The AI will also explain the issue with infinite patience and ego-coddling.