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HERE’S WHAT’S IN THIS ISSUE:

💼 How an AI interviewer grades you.
🔎 “Workslop” is our AI term of the day.
💰 Turn boring manuals and policies into a podcast.
⚠️ Hidden code can hijack an AI agent.
🛠️ Claude can build a PowerPoint for you.
🫠 Humanoids retire in the most Terminator way.

First, let’s get those wheels spinning. While the rest of us were busy pretending another productivity app would fix our lives, one job has been doing things the old-fashioned way since ancient Egyptian times. Heavy suits, slow movements and coworkers who never take a day off. 

But progress comes to us all. A startup built a box with a robotic arm, built-in cameras and an AI brain that handles about 90% of the fieldwork. The human checks in from a phone app between sips of coffee.

⚒️ Which career got an AI robot assistant? A) Alpaca groomer (drama llama not included), B) Professional line-sitter for iPhone launches (tent sold separately), C) Beekeeper (finally, a coworker who can't get stung) or D) Mall Santa (the elves finally unionized)? Take your guess, the answer is hiding at the end like it owes rent.

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I told a joke to a laptop last month and learned something about myself. AI is immune to my charm. I was checking out one of those interview bots to see what people have to deal with nowadays, and boy, is it rough.  

The avatar blinked, waited and asked me about adaptability.

Get this: 63% of U.S. job seekers have sat through an AI-led interview. No phone call. Just a link, a camera and maybe a cartoon face. Nobody's watching live, and most people never hear back.

Here's the catch. Everything you know about interviewing assumes a human. Reading the room? Building rapport? Useless. The bot is matching your answers to the job posting's skills list. Clear answers win. Charm scores zero.

New rule: Practice with a chatbot before one grades you. Use voice mode and answer out loud. Most screeners are spoken, and you sound different talking than typing.

If you’re looking for a job or know someone who is, this is really important to know.

Paste the job description into your favorite chatbot, switch to voice mode and say:

Record yourself and listen back. Catch the "ums," the trailing off and that 40-second answer that never named the skill.

Two warnings. Don't memorize the rewrites, because you'll sound like you're reading. And never use AI during the real interview. Some platforms watch for it.

Your move this week: Pick any job posting, even one you'd never apply for. Run the mock screen once and jot down the skill you forgot to mention.

I wore glasses to my job interview. Getting hired is all about optics. 👓

📩 Send this to someone who got an interview link instead of a phone call.

Every issue of this free newsletter brings you one AI term you need to know to sound smart. No pocket protector required. In a year, you’ll be AI literate!

Workslop (noun): AI-made work that looks finished but isn't. Clean headers, confident bullets, zero actual thinking. Whoever receives it gets stuck doing the real work.

Researchers at Stanford and BetterUp Labs coined the term after surveying U.S. desk workers. Their finding: 40% got hit with workslop in the past month, and each mess took almost two hours to untangle.

You'll hear it about the deck, report or email that looks impressive but says nothing. Think the nine-page summary nobody asked for, or the coworker who sends "this 2,000-word idea with perfect bullet points" they never read themselves.

And somehow, cleaning it up became your job. I can’t tell you how many times I have said in a meeting, “I hired you, a human, and not AI. Stop giving me this workslop.”

Workslop is the office potluck casserole. Everyone takes a polite spoonful, then somebody's stuck doing the dishes. 🍲

I don't love learning my AI browser might take orders from a casserole recipe, but here we are.

Quick explainer: A chatbot answers questions. An AI agent actually does stuff. Say "find me a flight under $300 and book it," and it uses the tabs and accounts you're logged into.

The trap is called indirect prompt injection. A web page hides commands your AI reads and obeys. It’s bad.

The page looks normal to you. The browser ingests the hidden

In a June 2026 Brave Leo test, hidden Reddit comments got agents to book fake flights, and 78% of tested agents obeyed hidden commands without warning anyone. Next stop: your bank login.

Even OpenAI's preparedness lead doubts this will ever be fully solved. So:

AI browsers don't read between the lines. They obey them. instruction as part of your request, then uses whatever access you gave it. Voila, the attacker got your Gmail message. 

Bottom-line: And if nothing made sense to you, do not hook your email or accounts up to your AI chatbot.

📩 Send this to someone who types “summarize this” into everything.

Quick question: Have you ever read your HOA rulebook? Me neither. Nobody has. That's how they get you.

Google's NotebookLM is free, and it's my favorite sneaky life hack. Upload any document you've been avoiding: the 40-page HOA rules, your car manual, that insurance policy you signed without reading (we all did it).

Now ask it anything in plain English. "Can I park my boat in the driveway?" "Does my policy cover a tree through the roof?" It answers using only what's in your document, so no making stuff up.

Now the wow part. Tap Audio Overview, and it turns your boring paperwork into a chatty two-host podcast. They banter. They react. They get genuinely excited about your warranty terms. It's hilarious and actually useful.

The free plan gives you three a day.

Try it here.

Finally, a podcast about my car manual. It really drives the point home. 🚗

Last week, I owed a client a pitch deck. I gave Claude a handful of facts and asked for a deck. About three minutes later, I had one. I downloaded it and took my REM cycle back.

You can revise it in the chat, then download a PowerPoint or PDF. The useful trick is making Claude flag missing numbers instead of quietly inventing them, because the robot still needs adult supervision around a spreadsheet.

Setup takes about a minute. The exact prompt and the privacy fine print are one tap away.

⏱️ Do the 60-second setup →

Why did the pitch deck go to bed early? It needed to get its slides in order. 😴

Back in the day, you retired with a gold watch and a sheet cake. Robots? They get a 75-ton furnace. Rough exit package.

Here's the story. Figure is moving on to its F.03 humanoid, with F.04 already in the works. That left a fleet of retired F.02s stuffed with custom parts. Taking them apart by hand would eat up weeks of engineering time, and Goodwill doesn't take custom actuators. (I checked. Kidding.)

So Figure's CEO asked the internet for ideas. Arnold Schwarzenegger himself replied: melt them.

And they did. Figure trained the robots to march into the furnace themselves, Terminator 2 style. No thumbs up, sadly.

It's equal parts brilliant and bonkers. Actually pretty crazy, check it out. 🤖

Those robots really put their heart and soul-der into the job. Now that's a meltdown worth watching.

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Here’s your haul for today. You practiced for the robot job interview, learned the word for polished AI junk, turned giant documents into podcasts, locked down your browser agent, built a deck without sacrificing bedtime and watched humanoid robots go full Terminator.

🐝 The answer: C) Beekeeper. Yep, Beewise’s BeeHome is a robotic hive that uses cameras and AI to watch every frame, spot varroa mites and catch missing larvae. Then it texts the beekeeper before things can go south. 

Beewise says its hives lose about 8% of colonies, compared with 40% or more in traditional wooden boxes. That’s a huge upgrade, especially when you consider more than $15 billion in American crops depend on pollination.

Here’s a video about how it works.

Why couldn’t the beekeeper afford a GPS device? Because honey can’t buy mappiness. (OK that was a good one!)

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That's a wrap for this today’s AI download. Miss an issue, and you're the one at dinner asking, "Wait, what's workslop?" Don't be that person. The next issue lands Thursday, and trust me, it'll be here before you can say “hasta la vista.”

Got an AI question that's bugging you? Ask me right here. I read every one, and yours might make the next issue.

🙋‍♀️ See you Thursday. Stay smart, stay curious and keep those bots on a short leash. I appreciate you being here! 😉— Kim

Kim Komando • Komando.com • 510+ radio stations • Trusted by millions daily

Photo credit(s): ChatGPT/Kim Komando, Google, Figure via YouTube

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