Can you still build meaningful relationships with your audience when AI enters the conversation?

In this episode, we explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping the way brands design, manage, and sustain their communities. From chatbots to generative content, AI tools are accelerating workflows—but at what cost to trust, connection, and belonging? You’ll learn why efficiency isn’t the same as engagement, how AI can augment (not replace) community-building, and what it means to design experiences that feel human—even when they’re not.

Our guest, Jake McKee, is a veteran community strategist and the founder of AIX Sessions. He shares practical insights from decades of helping brands like LEGO and Apple navigate the intersection of technology and human connection.

If you're working on customer engagement, product communities, or brand loyalty, this episode will help you ask better questions—and avoid the most common pitfalls of AI integration.

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This week on AI Weekly Digest, we dive into the dark side of AI therapy: what if your chatbot confessions became surveillance tools in the hands of an authoritarian state?

We also discuss AI-powered textbooks in South Korea and Reid Hoffman's call to reinvent higher education in the age of generative tools.

In media news, an AI-generated summer reading guide features books that don’t even exist.

Researchers reveal that when grouped together, AIs develop their own social norms.

And finally, young graduates are watching their first jobs disappear—sometimes replaced by AI before they even get a chance.

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This week on AI Weekly Digest, we break down the most important AI news stories—beyond the headlines and the hype. On the agenda: – In Bowling Green, Kentucky, a small city uses AI to shape its 25-year urban plan. Is this the future of civic participation, or just another digital gimmick? – Once hailed as the hottest AI job, the prompt engineer is already disappearing. What happened? – Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine, wants to challenge Google — by tracking your every move online. – Lyft launches an AI assistant to help its drivers earn more by planning smarter routes. A new step in the gig economy's AI transformation. – And finally, the most advanced AI models are getting stronger... but also more prone to hallucinations. Even OpenAI doesn’t know exactly why. Five stories, five perspectives — to understand how AI is reshaping our tools, our work, and the tough questions we face.

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