You got into community for the people, not the busywork.

Community managers are being squeezed from two directions: executives asking why humans are needed at all, and AI eating the search traffic that once proved community value. This show makes the affirmative case, not by rejecting AI, but by getting precise about what it can and cannot do. AI can answer most questions, store collective memory, and scale parts of the work. It cannot build trust, read a room, mediate conflict, or create the relational fabric that makes communities matter. AI supports answers. Humans build trust.

Each week, host Chris Heuer (30+ years building communities online, offline and in global enterprises) and co-host Marius Ciortea talk with practitioners, builders, and skeptics about which parts of the work belong to AI agents, which stay irreducibly human, and how to tell the difference. The show is supported by the Work Map, an open inventory of nearly 300 community management jobs classified as Human, Agent, or Hybrid.

Topics include AI tools for community managers, agents and automation, member engagement, trust and moderation, community strategy, proving community value, and the future of the profession. If you manage a community and you're deciding what to hand to AI and what to keep, this show is for you.

Sponsored by Higher Logic. Every episode includes actionable tactics you can use. Explore the Work Map and join us at communityassistant.ai.