Human & meaning
Statement I do not care whether a text, image or song was made by a human or by AI, as long as I enjoy it.
Human & meaning
Statement If I deliver something good that was largely made with AI, I can be just as proud of it as if I had thought of it myself.
Human & meaning
Statement Five years from now, my role will no longer exist in the form I know today.
Human & meaning
Statement I am happy to write a thank-you note or birthday message for a colleague with AI. The fact that I thought of them is what matters, not whether I chose the words myself.
Human & meaning
Dilemma You do a task you genuinely enjoy and are good at. Your manager suggests using AI to do it much faster from now on, freeing you up for ‘more important work.’ What do you say?
Human & meaning
Dilemma A colleague who has done the creative work for years now produces noticeably weaker work than a new colleague using AI. Everyone sees it; no one says it. What do you do?
Human & meaning
Dilemma You are genuinely proud of something. A colleague says enthusiastically, ‘Impressive: did you make that with AI?’ The answer is no. What do you feel, and what do you say?
Human & meaning
Open question Which part of your work would you keep doing exactly as you do now, even if the entire organization moved to AI and that made you slower and more expensive than everyone else?
Human & meaning
Open question Suppose AI completely takes over the boring part of your work. What is left, and do you want that?
Work & productivity
Statement The time I save with AI gets absorbed by even more work, not by working at a calmer pace.
Work & productivity
Statement I deliberately edit text I make with AI so that it does not look like it was written by AI.
Work & productivity
Statement Much of what we call ‘becoming more productive with AI’ is simply producing more text that nobody asked for.
Work & productivity
Statement Having AI summarize a meeting instead of taking notes myself makes me a worse participant.
Work & productivity
Statement Finishing something in an hour with AI feels like less of an accomplishment than struggling with it myself for half a day, even when the work is done.
Work & productivity
Dilemma A team member completes in one day what would normally take a week, clearly with a lot of AI. The quality is fine. Another team member feels uncomfortable about it. What do you do?
Work & productivity
Statement Sometimes I doubt whether AI actually makes me faster. Checking, correcting and rephrasing eats up the time I saved.
Work & productivity
Open question Which task have you delegated to AI so completely that you are no longer sure you could still do it well yourself?
Work & productivity
Open question Think about the time you saved with AI this week. Where did it actually go: other work, more of the same, or something for yourself?
Learning & craft
Open question For which judgments or decisions do you now rely more on AI than on your own judgment?
Learning & craft
Open question Which things would you rather struggle through yourself than hand over to AI? And where are you happy to hand over the struggle?
Learning & craft
Statement Being good at my profession no longer means being able to do it myself; it means knowing how to get it done with AI.
Learning & craft
Statement I do not care how a colleague arrives at good work, with or without AI.
Learning & craft
Dilemma A junior on your team delivers remarkably good work, clearly using a lot of AI. You notice they do not really understand the underlying subject matter. The output is fine. Do you address it, or let it go?
Learning & craft
Open question Which skill are you no longer learning because AI will do it anyway? Think of an Excel formula, an email in English, or something in a program you often use. Name one.
Learning & craft
Dilemma The juniors on your team increasingly ask AI their questions instead of experienced colleagues. Do you deliberately send them back to senior staff, even though it takes time and may feel old-fashioned? Or do you leave it, because AI is faster and always available?
Learning & craft
Open question Which skill that took you real effort to build would you still recommend a beginner learn today, and which one would you no longer recommend?
Learning & craft
Statement My profession is shifting from making things myself to judging what AI makes. That feels like a demotion.
Can we trust it?
Statement Other people trust AI output too easily. I check it more carefully than most people around me.
Can we trust it?
Statement When I started using AI, I checked everything. Now I mostly skim it, because it was correct the previous times.
Can we trust it?
Statement Not all AI-assisted work deserves the same level of scrutiny. For some tasks, I deliberately check only the places where an error would really hurt and leave the rest. That is a choice, not laziness.
Can we trust it?
Statement A mistake made by AI that I failed to notice is less serious than the same mistake would be if I had made it myself.
Can we trust it?
Open question Something you created with AI turns out to contain an error that you missed. What do you do, and how does it feel?
Can we trust it?
Dilemma A selection tool that is demonstrably less biased than people rejects the candidate you thought was best after the interview. You cannot explain exactly why the tool rejected them. Do you follow the tool or your own judgment?
Can we trust it?
Open question Think of a time you doubted whether a colleague had really checked their AI-assisted work. What did you do: verify it yourself, say something, or let it go?
Can we trust it?
Open question How much checking is ‘enough’ before you are willing to put your name on AI-assisted work? Name a time you consciously or quietly set that bar lower than you thought was responsible.
Can we trust it?
Open question When did you trust an AI result more than a human judgment, either your own or a colleague’s? Did that turn out to be right or wrong? How did it affect your choice the next time?
Our direction
Statement We are chasing AI because we are afraid of being left behind, not because we know where we want to go.
Our direction
Statement The gains from AI mostly go to the organization and its customers, not to us as employees.
Our direction
Statement Our AI frontrunners are moving so fast that everyone else is disengaging.
Our direction
Statement At work, I do not dare say out loud that I still use very little AI.
Our direction
Dilemma A colleague uses a prohibited AI tool and is noticeably faster and better than you, while you follow the rules. Your performance review is coming up. What do you do?
Our direction
Dilemma You have a budget for AI training: advanced training for a few frontrunners or basic training for the entire team. Which do you choose?
Our direction
Open question What would concretely change if, one year from now, we were ‘doing AI well’? What would an ordinary workday look like?
Our direction
Open question Who or what actually sets our pace with AI: leadership, the market, a few enthusiasts, or the urgency of the moment?
Our direction
Open question What do we do if the AI tool we have come to depend on becomes much more expensive tomorrow or goes offline?
Honest about AI
Statement Having AI write a text and passing it off as your own words is simply deceptive, even if I occasionally do it myself.
Honest about AI
Statement As a team, we should disclose by default whenever something was made with AI.
Honest about AI
Statement These days, I do not believe someone who says, ‘I never use AI.’
Honest about AI
Statement If a client does not ask whether we used AI, we do not need to volunteer that information.
Honest about AI
Dilemma You suspect your intern had AI complete an assignment in full. When you ask, they deny it. What do you do?
Honest about AI
Dilemma Your manager presents an analysis in a meeting as their own work. You know AI did most of it. Do you say something? If so, to whom?
Honest about AI
Dilemma A client prohibits AI on their project. You know AI would let you do it faster and at least as well, and the client would never know the difference. Do you respect their no, or do what you believe will produce the best result?
Honest about AI
Open question What have you had AI create and then passed off as your own work, even though presenting it that way did not really feel right?
Honest about AI
Open question When do you think it is perfectly fine not to disclose that AI was involved, and when does the same silence feel dishonest?
