Should I use AI to automatically respond to emails?

No, don’t have AI automatically respond to your emails. People don’t like, appreciate, or respect automated AI responses. Instead, use AI for speech-to-text to make YOUR responses faster and easier to create. The human touch in email replies is what makes them valuable - both for building relationships and for sending positive signals to email providers. Use technology to speed up the process of crafting your responses, but keep the responses genuinely from you.

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Asked by general teaching point · Answered by Patrick Shanahan · art-marketing-podcast · 2025-11-07