However, their actual conversations were left to the reader's imagination, with the interviewer saying the pair "trade wellness intel more than gossip".

I loved his wayward, almost naive approach to conversation — “I ask dumb,” he said — which could produce interesting results that might elude better prepared interviewers.

Founded in downtown San Francisco in 2022, Outset created an AI interviewer so researchers could quickly gather feedback from more people to better understand customer needs and improve products.

The interviewer was skeptical — “Are you sure about that?”

Colbert is liberal and seen as a friendly interviewer by Democrats.