An AI-generated fictional office story.
I needed to send one sentence to my coworker Sam.
Can we move our 10 a.m. meeting to 11?
Then I thought, What if that sounds rude? So I asked AI to make it more professional.
It gave me this.
Hi Sam, I hope this message finds you well. I’m reaching out to see whether you might be open to adjusting the timing of our upcoming meeting from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. I appreciate your flexibility and look forward to connecting.
Sam sits six feet away. I could see that the message would find him well. He was eating a banana.
I asked AI to make it warmer.
Hi Sam! Hope your morning is off to a great start. I wanted to check in and see if 11 might work a little better for our meeting. Totally understand if your schedule is already packed!
Sam’s schedule was open on my screen. At 11 he had a block called Buy socks. I didn’t know whether that was a reminder or a meeting with a sock vendor. Either way, I wanted to respect it.
“Make it shorter,” I typed.
Hi Sam, would 11 work for our meeting? Thanks!
That was fine. Unfortunately, I had now spent seven minutes on this email, and I wanted something to show for it.
“Make it sound more like me.”
Sure. Can you share an example of how you normally write?
I pasted my original sentence.
Can we move our 10 a.m. meeting to 11?
AI said it sounded clear and natural.
I sent it. Sam replied before I could close the chat.
yep
I waited for the rest of his email. There was no greeting, no appreciation for my flexibility, and no indication that my message had found him well.
At 11, he showed up.
He was wearing new socks.
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