AI is everywhere. But which AI tool should you actually use for what?In this episode of Small Talk: Work | Play | Build, we stop trying to keep up with every new AI tool and try something more useful: imagine ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Perplexity, NotebookLM and Grok as your colleagues. Who would you trust with research? Who would you send the boring repetitive work to? Who would you absolutely not give access to your Google Drive?We also step back from the tools themselves to ask some bigger questions. If AI is changing what we can do at work this quickly, what happens to careers, expertise and the idea of building a long-term professional identity? And if nobody, including the people building these systems, really knows where AI is headed, how do we make sense of it without getting overwhelmed?The answer might have less to do with becoming better at AI and more to do with becoming better at being human.00:00 AI Is Coming for Our Jobs. Or Is It?03:48 Why AI Power Is Concentrated07:56 From Automation to AI Agents11:35 Does a Career Still Exist?14:29 Work, Play, Build18:56 If AI Tools Were Colleagues20:24 ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude as Colleagues26:42 Copilot, Perplexity, NotebookLM and Grok31:20 Which AI Tool Is Best for What?32:02 The 98% AI Problem34:08 AI May Make Us More Human34:55 Read, Watch, ListenWhat’s your AI colleague lineup? Tell us which tools you use, and what job you give each of them.Small Talk: Work | Play | Build is a podcast for curious people figuring out careers, work, passions and everything in between.#AI #AITools #FutureOfWork #CareerGrowth #SmallTalkPodcast---------------------If this one landed, here's the one thing we'll ever ask: rate Small Talk on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Five seconds. It's the only signal that decides who else gets to hear us. Stay close🎧 Listen everywhere · https://www.pod.link/1531495902📺 YouTube · https://www.youtube.com/@smalltalkpod_wpb📷 Instagram · https://www.instagram.com/smalltalkpod_wpb🌐 https://www.smalltalkpod.com📩 Write to us: smalltalkpod.wpb@gmail.com📅 New episodes every fortnightSmall Talk: Work, Play, Build is a fortnightly podcast about careers, leadership, and the things we make outside our day jobs. Hosted by Subha Chandrasekaran (https://www.linkedin.com/in/subhachandrasekaran/) (executive coach, founder of RainKraft) and Hasita Krishna (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hasita/) (brand strategist, co-founder of Motley Crew). Seven seasons in, still about what it means to live a life that feels true — at work and outside it.© 2026 RainKraft Creative Solutions (OPC) Pvt. Ltd.