April 29, 2026

Help! My boss is addicted to ChatGPT and Claude

Senior leaders are using AI to talk to their underlings — and the underlings don’t like it

Éanna Kelly

3 min read

“Have you tried running that through ChatGPT or Claude?” 

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Éanna Kelly

Éanna Kelly is a contributing editor at Sifted, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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