Your team is nervous. AI is coming for the copy, the campaigns, the creative. And here’s the uncomfortable part: it can do a lot of it. Dan Roth’s argument is sharper than “the robots can’t.” It’s that the copy AI hands you is the copy that makes you sound like everyone else. Dan has spent his career in the trenches of communications, from local TV spots to direct-response advertising, to internal comms at Ford and Slate Auto. Now a fractional communications strategist and podcast host, he joins Danielle for a fast, funny, occasionally furious conversation that every leader watching AI reshape their org needs to hear.
Equal parts gut check and permission slip. If someone on your team is quietly panicking about AI, send them this one.
Episode 45
// 08.04.26
AI Can Write Your Copy. Here's Why You Shouldn't Let It: Communications strategist Dan Roth on the human touch that actually sells
Your team is nervous. AI is coming for the copy, the campaigns, the creative. And here's the uncomfortable part: it can do a lot of it. Dan Roth's argument is sharper than "the robots can't."
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