At OpenAI, many employees link ChatGPT to Slack and let the assistant contact colleagues directly; @gdb reported on 2026-08-01 that people resent receiving help-requests from a coworker’s ChatGPT even when they'd happily help the human. The pattern indicates a preference for AI that frees time or augments human connection, not one that inserts an impersonal intermediary between people.
At OpenAI, many employees connect their ChatGPT instances to Slack so the assistant can message coworkers directly (reported by @gdb on 2026-08-01).
at openai, many people hook their chatgpt up to slack.
people really don't like when a coworker's chatgpt contacts them asking for help with a task, even when they'd be perfectly happy doing that same work if asked by that coworker.
reinforces how much people care about human relationships and helping each other, and want AI to give time back — or enhance time together — rather than become a layer separating people.