This highlights a crucial distinction: AI excels at scaling the logistics of connection, but it cannot generate the shared experience that forms a real relationship. The value in networking often comes from the unplanned, empathetic moment - a shared laugh or a moment of genuine understanding that an algorithm can't replicate or even perceive.
The image of AI agents sitting in your Zoom waiting room is both funny and unsettling. I think your point about AI handling the adminstrative side while humans focus on genuine connection is the right path forward. What worries me though is people like that Bob who sent an AI in his place. If netwroking becomes transactional enough that an AI can extract value from it, then we've already lost something important about what makes professional relatonships meaningful. The trust and empathy gap you mentioned is real, but I wonder how long it stays a gap when younger generations grow up with AI as their primary interface for everything.
If you think about networking as "optimizable" technical task - AI is clearly the future
AI is at the very least a key ingredient of it in the future
Congrats on the AI CEO. Now about the $3M your human teams are hemorrhaging in implementation gaps...
This highlights a crucial distinction: AI excels at scaling the logistics of connection, but it cannot generate the shared experience that forms a real relationship. The value in networking often comes from the unplanned, empathetic moment - a shared laugh or a moment of genuine understanding that an algorithm can't replicate or even perceive.
The image of AI agents sitting in your Zoom waiting room is both funny and unsettling. I think your point about AI handling the adminstrative side while humans focus on genuine connection is the right path forward. What worries me though is people like that Bob who sent an AI in his place. If netwroking becomes transactional enough that an AI can extract value from it, then we've already lost something important about what makes professional relatonships meaningful. The trust and empathy gap you mentioned is real, but I wonder how long it stays a gap when younger generations grow up with AI as their primary interface for everything.