Here's what happened: An employee working remotely in Portugal used AI to request New York wages (the employee's old address). But here's the harder question: What conditions did I create that made my employee believe only AI could speak for them? But when an employee outsources asking for a raise to ChatGPT, what they're really saying is: "I don't trust my own words to be worth your time." And when a manager responds with AI, they're saying: "Your request isn't worth my authentic attention." In a world where we're teaching machines to sound human, the most radical business act is ensuring humans sound human when it matters most.