That Email Your Boss Wrote? It Might Be AI. Here's How to Tell.

Look at your inbox. I'll wait. See that perfectly structured message from your manager? No typos. Bullet points that actually make sense. A polite opener and closer. Yeah, that's probably AI. And honestly? That's fine. But here's how you spot it. Real humans leave crumbs. A weird capitalization. An emoji where it doesn't belong. A sentence that trails off... The AI writes clean. Too clean. It never says "per my last email" with passive aggression. It doesn't accidentally reply-all. It doesn't send a message at 11 PM that clearly came from a phone with autocorrect betraying them. I'm not saying AI emails are bad. They save time. But they also remove personality. Next time you get a flawless message, write back with a typo on purpose. See if they notice. That's how you find the humans.