🤖 Using AI Without Losing the Human Touch (with Josh Elledge)
August 11, 2026
A few weeks back I sat down as a guest on Josh Elledge's show, The Thoughtful Entrepreneur, for a conversation about AI that stayed practical instead of sliding into hype or doom. This bonus episode of Your Tech Makeover shares that conversation with you on an off week between regular episodes.
We talked about treating AI as a tool and a virtual assistant, not as the thing that represents you to other people. We also got into why AI-generated "slop" happens, how Josh's son uses AI to research internship opportunities without sending the output verbatim, and why business leaders who try to replace whole departments with bots usually discover problems they cannot diagnose later.
What this conversation covers
- Using AI as a tool instead of letting it sit in the driver's seat
- Why person-to-person communication is where AI misuse does the most damage to trust
- The emerging "AI gap" between people who use these tools well and people who avoid them
- Frank's warning about replacing entire departments with AI bots
- How teaching the internet to seniors in the 1990s shaped Your Tech Makeover
Listen and follow up
If you enjoy this one, look up The Thoughtful Entrepreneur wherever you listen to podcasts. Josh publishes a new fifteen-minute episode every day.
Original episode: Thoughtful Entrepreneur episode 2442
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