During a recent visit to the Found podcast, Parker Conrad, the creator of the HR startup Rippling, provided some thought-provoking insights regarding AI. "No one actually wants to chat with their HR software beyond the sort of novelty of like, oh, my gosh, it responds to me," he said. He can see why businesses have been "AI washing"—proclaiming that their products are AI or heavily rely on AI when, in fact, they don't.