Last week the conference I was at ended up being all about AI tools. So on stage Friday I asked two very accomplished folks: "About these productivity tools: if my GSuite AI writes my email to you, and your Microsoft Office AI reads it for you, have we communicated? What was the point of the message?"

So far no good answers about my very Ship of Thesus question, haha. (And I don't have one, either.) But at least apparently several people stopped to think about it.

@kcoxdc That is an extremely good question. And part of a very under explored set of question about how@mich of the work IT systems in general do that actually needs to get done, even before AI. How much work is actually saved.