A few days ago I posted here about something laughing through tears that happened while testing an AI assistant I’m building. It ended up calling a dentist office and accidentally talking to another automated system for two hours. The story itself was funny, but what surprised me more were the comments. Even in an AI-focused subreddit, people seemed pretty divided. Some people basically said: “Please automate as much of my life admin as possible.” But others reacted very strongly the other way. A few comments were like: “Don’t outsource your life to AI, that’s just part of being human.” Some people even mentioned the “dead internet” idea. That made me realize something interesting: maybe there’s a line where automation stops feeling helpful and starts feeling uncomfortable. For context, the thing I’ve been experimenting with is a personal AI assistant that handles boring admin work - things like: scheduling meetings, reading messy email threads, updating a calendar, calling places to book appointments Basically the kind of logistics that eat time but don’t require much creativity. So now I’m curious how people here actually feel about it. If an AI assistant could reliably do things like that for you, would you use it? Or would you rather keep that part of life manual? Where’s the line for you between helpful automation and " this feels like too much AI " ? submitted by /u/AlexBossov
Originally posted by u/AlexBossov on r/ArtificialInteligence