Jun 29, 2026 · 29 min · 16 segments
Aleks Krotoski and Kevin Fong explore a curious contradiction: why do we bristle at AI‑generated emails and writing, even while many of us quietly rely on them ourselves? What does this reveal about…
Kevin FongHost
Aleks KrotoskiHost
Katrina CollierGuest
Katrina illustrates, I think, the double standard that we all have in this new AI era.
And what I found really useful was her advice to an applicant for an entry-level job, which was, if you're going to use AI, use it to help you structure the CV to make sure that it is matching the job you're applying for, but then go again and put yourself into the CV.
Because in the end, what you want is this thing to tell the recruiter something about you as a human being, as an individual.
Katrina definitely, I think, beautifully represents this double standard that we all experience.
I know that I also use artificial intelligence, but I don't like to receive it myself.
When you listen to the actual words that she was using about what the result of AI is or what she thought was important for the human to add, she says that that CVs are too well matched, that they're full of word salad and that people who actually use that AI basis and then do put that personality in, you know, they're the ones who are using the stuff between their ears.
And this is what really excites me about this topic is the idea that, yeah, we're contradictory, but ultimately under the surface of what it is that we say we don't like about AI is actually something more fundamental to us what it is that we think about one another.
Katrina illustrates, I think, the double standard that we all have in this new AI era.
And what I found really useful was her advice to an applicant for an entry-level job, which was, if you're going to use AI, use it to help you structure the CV to make sure that it is matching the job you're applying for, but then go again and put yourself into the CV.
Because in the end, what you want is this thing to tell the recruiter something about you as a human being, as an individual.
Katrina definitely, I think, beautifully represents this double standard that we all experience.
I know that I also use artificial intelligence, but I don't like to receive it myself.
When you listen to the actual words that she was using about what the result of AI is or what she thought was important for the human to add, she says that that CVs are too well matched, that they're full of word salad and that people who actually use that AI basis and then do put that personality in, you know, they're the ones who are using the stuff between their ears.
And this is what really excites me about this topic is the idea that, yeah, we're contradictory, but ultimately under the surface of what it is that we say we don't like about AI is actually something more fundamental to us what it is that we think about one another.
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