Professor Alison Wood Brooks

And I would have heard in week seven that their son has a knee injury and they're very worried about their son's health.

And then in week eight, when I got in the taxi, I'd make a proposition to them.

I'd say, I know your son has a bad knee.

We can take care of him.

You know that nodding and that mm-hmm, mm-hmm stuff?

Is that good or bad?

You understood the objective when we sat down.

I want to become the best talker, conversationalist, the most persuasive, most light person on earth.

That was the objective that I gave you the brief.

Is there anything that we haven't talked about that we should have talked about

Of course I want to hear about it.

So this is what I was going to ask you about as well.

Now we have large language models which are writing lots of AI slop for us.

And if you log into social media, even email, Slack channels, sometimes in WhatsApp, I look at the messages that I'll take responsibility as well.

Sometimes that I'm sending, sometimes that I'm receiving.

And because of AI...

They're getting increasingly less soulful.

When I scroll certain social media platforms, which I shan't name, I feel disconnected from people now.

Because my comments are all like AI slop stuff.

With a big em dash and, oh my God, this is so amazing, Stephen.