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AI Content management Podcasts The Uninvited Author

From clay tablets to LLMs: Applying communication theory to AI-optimized content ops

In the second episode of The Uninvited Author podcast series, authors Sarah O’Keefe and Carlos Evia examine how foundational communication theories help structure modern content operations. They unpack how AI adds new intentionality to creating and delivering content, providing the theoretical groundwork creators and leaders need to manage workflow risks and build sustainable AI-optimized content ops.

Sarah O’Keefe: It’s not that you have to go talk to your management or your CEO or whoever you’re dealing with about Umberto Echo, although that might work. It is that this needs to be in the back of your mind so that when somebody pushes back with something that is clearly nonsensical and is just simply not going to work, you can explain why. You have the foundation that allows you to move forward and say, “Okay, so as we’re building out the system, as we’re bringing AI into the equation, here’s where it’s going to do well and here’s where it’s risky.”

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Bridging the gap between content design, content ops, and AI

Is AI the catalyst that will finally bring content design and content ops together? In this episode, Sarah O’Keefe speaks with Kate Agena, Vice President of Content Design at SAP, about why fluency is cheap while meaning remains expensive in an AI-driven world.

Kate Agena: But users don’t care if content is coming from marketing, product, or whatever: they want whatever it is that they need at the time they need it. If everything is just kind of in one pile of information, that’s not going to come out correctly. So I think ops is just so incredibly important now, and content ops in particular are going to be far more important than they were.

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The Uninvited Author: AI, intent, and the future of content

In this podcast, Sarah O’Keefe and Carlos Evia discuss their upcoming book: The Uninvited Author: AI, Intent, and the Future of Content.

Carlos Evia: One of the things that we really want to invite people who end up reading this book to do is engage critically with AI tools across the text cycle. It’s not magic. It’s a collection of ugly computers in water-chugging data centers that work primarily on predictability approaches. And I truly think that we need to be critical in our engagement with AI as authors and as readers of content.

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The limits of automation and AI in content workflows

What are the limits of automation and AI in content systems? In this episode, Sarah O’Keefe and Bill Swallow dive into traditional formatting, workflow challenges, and what happens when AI is introduced.

The limit of automation here is not really the automation. It’s the people who say, “I don’t like the way this looks, and I’m gonna find a way to fix it. I know all sorts of ways of bending this stuff to my will.” If you’re generating content at scale, you can’t afford to do any of this stuff.

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