He argues AI tools compromise a speaker's authentic voice
Gautam Kamath#197I fully agree with this post by @thegautamkamath on how preparing talks is one of the best ways to upgrade my own thinking.
So, I certainly do not want to waste that opportunity by delegating it to AI.
https://kamathematics.wordpress.com/2026/05/27/making-a-talk-without-and-with-ai/
Positive users highlight AI's efficiency for illustrations and original answers in academic talks while negative users criticize the blog's ads and AI's lack of human authenticity in writing.
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In the last 48h: - Jr researcher asked me wheter to use AI in making talks - Saw two talks, with AI {slop, enhanced} slides
Collected my thoughts and wrote a post. Tl;dr: don't steal your own thinking, don't remove *you* from your talks. Also, give a &#@% about your talks.
Great advice that also applies to writing blog posts!
In the last 48h: - Jr researcher asked me wheter to use AI in making talks - Saw two talks, with AI {slop, enhanced} slides
Collected my thoughts and wrote a post. Tl;dr: don't steal your own thinking, don't remove *you* from your talks. Also, give a &#@% about your talks.
https://kamathematics.wordpress.com/2026/05/27/making-a-talk-without-and-with-ai/
In the last 48h: - Jr researcher asked me wheter to use AI in making talks - Saw two talks, with AI {slop, enhanced} slides
Collected my thoughts and wrote a post. Tl;dr: don't steal your own thinking, don't remove *you* from your talks. Also, give a &#@% about your talks.
Making slides for a new talk takes painfully long for me and AI-accelerated slides making has always been the No.1 use of AI I'm looking for, as often times I came up with an idea and it took minutes if not longer to implement it. so far unfortunately AI has not been helpful...
In the last 48h: - Jr researcher asked me wheter to use AI in making talks - Saw two talks, with AI {slop, enhanced} slides
Collected my thoughts and wrote a post. Tl;dr: don't steal your own thinking, don't remove *you* from your talks. Also, give a &#@% about your talks.
Also, your enthusiasm for your own research is the ceiling of the audience's. It's OK to be a little obsessed with your topic.
In the last 48h: - Jr researcher asked me wheter to use AI in making talks - Saw two talks, with AI {slop, enhanced} slides
Collected my thoughts and wrote a post. Tl;dr: don't steal your own thinking, don't remove *you* from your talks. Also, give a &#@% about your talks.
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/05/28/what-if-scientists-really-were-dispassionate-observers-communicating-ideas-without-irrational-commitment-look-here-says-ai/
@thegautamkamath I like the post! Wrote up some related thoughts on metascientific consequences of AI-generated slides & ideas diluting the impression that speakers are committed to what they're presenting. Science runs on personal attachments more than we like to admit. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/05/28/what-if-scientists-really-were-dispassionate-observers-communicating-ideas-without-irrational-commitment-look-here-says-ai/
https://kamathematics.wordpress.com/2026/05/27/making-a-talk-without-and-with-ai/
I wrote up some related thoughts on metascientific consequences of AI-generated slides & ideas diluting the impression that speakers are committed to what they're presenting.
It's not just a case of putting style over substance. Science runs on personal attachments.
link below
Also cringe when faculty you respect present straight-from-AI slides at prestigious events, as if it's always been their style to grid things to death, use full sentences, headers, footers everywhere & phrases like “principal levers” & “governing friction” & “salient features” 1/
@thegautamkamath The ads make the blog unreadable. It’s there every paragraph, like a People’s Magazine webpage.
with the exception that it can generate pretty nice illustrations like the following I used in a recent talk
Making slides for a new talk takes painfully long for me and AI-accelerated slides making has always been the No.1 use of AI I'm looking for, as often times I came up with an idea and it took minutes if not longer to implement it. so far unfortunately AI has not been helpful...
@thegautamkamath agree 100%
In the last 48h: - Jr researcher asked me wheter to use AI in making talks - Saw two talks, with AI {slop, enhanced} slides
Collected my thoughts and wrote a post. Tl;dr: don't steal your own thinking, don't remove *you* from your talks. Also, give a &#@% about your talks.
@deliprao Sorry about that. I set up Wordpress in the past since it was easy. At some point I should migrate it to something else, though that takes time/attention. Some sort of adblocker should make it look better.
Also kudos to @JessicaHullman for initiating the discussion (which led to the convo with said junior researcher)
@eig @thegautamkamath What if AI is better at making a good slide (e.g. knows what is not common knowledge)?
@thegautamkamath NP. Just thought you might want to know. Most of my consumption comes from mobile, which I guess is true for most people. On mobile, ad blocking is hard.
@sedielem True, For writing it's highly recommended to not write with ai, human to human understanding is important cause we know that we are not reading output tokens when it comes from humans so just don't do fraud.
@sedielem Nobody cares about your blog unless there's alpha in it
@sedielem AI gives an efficient answer.
Follow it up with prompt "how would Rory Sutherland answer it?" And you get genuine originality
@eig @thegautamkamath For example, your talk on expander decomposition at the conference was the same as the one for the workshop but I expected the second one to contain the sequential algorithm (since you used it as a subroutine). You also listed all the previous work without comparison.
