How to Avoid Talking About AI: A Survival Guide for 2025
No matter what you do for work, AI somehow finds its way into every conversation. Someone will inevitably ask about your “AI strategy.”

Here are my top 10 battle tested conversation deflectors. Please report back with field results:
1. “Have you tried linear regression? I heard it works!”
2. “Oh, look! Squirrel!”
3. “Maybe we should give blockchain another shot. What do you think?”
4. “You should start a podcast!”
5. “Have you read my Substack newsletter? I have 10 subscribers!”
6. “You should really use my latest Python package. It has 233 dependencies.”
7. “Have you taken up knitting or bird watching?”
8. “Kombucha?”
9. “We really should talk about the polar bears.”
10. “I heard HVAC is the future.”