Would you let AI rep you in a meeting?

“Eric, here's the thing. If you're telling me that sending emails is the most effective means of engaging buyers and closing business, then we don't need you. It would be a lot cheaper to just let the robot do your job.”

talking about A.I. and surrounded by amiable chitchat, I wondered whether, someday soon, conversations with human beings would be deemed lacking if they didn’t exhibit chatbot-like speed and responsiveness. Maybe there are some circles, in tech or elsewhere, where the quality of “the median conversation you can have with a person” is already measur