LinkedIn CEO says he's using AI to help write “ultra-high stakes” emails

Even LinkedIn CEOs use AI when sending emails to their bosses.

During a fireplace chat at LinkedIn's San Francisco office on Tuesday, Ryan Roslanksy said using AI “is very well known” like “having a second brain.” That's why AI can help every time you send important emails to your boss, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

“A lot of the time you send super-high stake emails to Satya Nadella and other CEOs and world leaders, etc., when you do, you need to make sure you sound very clever.” Roslansky said. “So I'll definitely say that almost every email I recently sent was sent with the help of Copilot.” He said, referring to Microsoft's AI assistant.

Still, that doesn't mean that LinkedIn chiefs are using AI to write their entire body of emails.

Roslansky said the tool is more useful to him to act like a helper leading a step-by-step process, such as asking a series of questions, and to determine the direction to take in his response.

“Historically there's a button called 'Draft a reply for me'. And it's just going to draft a reply,” he said. “The problem is that when you actually ask AI to blindly reply to emails, you're asking them to make lots of decisions for you.”

Roslansky is far from the only boss who has adopted AI for his job.

A Gallup poll released in June found that leaders, or “manager managers,” were using AI at a rate twice as much as individual contributors.

From technology to retail, executives across the industry recently told Business Insider Ana AltCheck that they used AI to help with day-to-day communication and read documentation.

“I definitely use it every day for all important emails,” Roslanski said. “amazing.”