Kai Risdahl

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I'm Kai Risdahl.

It's been, well, let's just say a very long time since I've written a cover letter.

You know what I'm talking about, right?

Dear hiring manager, I'm the perfect candidate for the job opening you have in blah, blah, blah.

Well, it turns out cover letters are just one more thing in this economy that's getting disrupted by AI.

Anna Alcheck wrote about it for Business Insider the other day.

Welcome to the program.

It's good to have you on.

Thanks for having me.

Tell me how you came upon this story.

Yeah, so this story, actually, I got the idea about it about six, seven months ago.

I was at an AI conference, and I was sitting next to a Wharton professor who was telling me about his story.

Yeah.

They're all exceptional.

And so he was having a really hard time being able to decipher which was actually top talent from the ones who just plugged it into ChatGPT and were sending similar emails to other professors.

So he was facing this hiring issue.

And I thought it was really interesting back then.

And as time went on, I've heard more.