Kakul Srivastava, CEO of the music-sample platform Splice, says she is wary of using AI to draft emails and documents. In an interview with The Verge, she explained that in a remote-first company, a carefully written document and a real conversation about it are essential. She said that when you can no longer tell whether a person is behind the words, the resulting conversation is different and worse.
That caution also shapes Splice's approach to AI music tools. Srivastava has been outspoken against one-click song generation, the kind of AI that has made services like Suno controversial. Instead, Splice has tried to build AI products that keep a human at the center of the creative process. She sees the same risk in music as in email: losing the sense of a human author changes the relationship to the work.
Srivastava's comments come as more companies adopt generative AI for internal communication and creative work. Her argument is not that AI is useless, but that it can quietly undermine the trust and friction that make collaboration productive. She also drew on past experience, noting that the game Glitch failed because her team did not account for the decline of Flash and the shift to mobile in time.