Your AI-enabled colleague
I am not AI-enabled, but I know people who are. I've learned a lot from them about the condition of AI-enablement and would like to share, in case it helps any other non-AI-enabled people improve their communication and general behaviour towards enabled colleagues.
Learnings about AI-enablement
The Output
- Your AI-enabled colleague is capable of creating vast amounts of text (or image, diagram, video) output for you to peruse.
- Sometimes, useful information will be included.
- This output may condescend, gaslight or mansplain.
- Frequently you will be told falsehoods.
- You will be given correct information about irrelevant subjects.
- The information is generally plausible unless scrutinised.
- The communication will sometimes contain unexplained directions, such as "You should also mention X to your colleague".
The burden
- It is up to you to read all the content of The Output.
- It is up to you to deflect condescension.
- It is up to you to ignore gaslighting.
- It is up to you to fact-check the truth of every piece of information.
- It is up to you not to become distracted with side quests and irrelevant chores.
The blame
- Your AI-enabled colleague is not to blame. This is normal; you are abnormal.
- Your AI-enabled colleague is much more productive now and this fact should be celebrated.
- You are to blame for not becoming AI-enabled.
- Your lack of AI-enablement is to blame for you being unable to process The Output at sufficient speed or with sufficient accuracy.
The morality
- All creation is good.
- More output means more productive.
- More is better.
- You are rude for wishing to discuss your colleague's enablement.
- Your colleague is doing good whereas you are causing friction.
The mind
- Your AI-enabled colleague repeats themself.
- Your AI-enabled colleague has a glazed look when you see them.
- Your AI-enabled colleague forgets or misunderstands information—perhaps forgotten, perhaps misunderstood, perhaps omitted from a summary.
- Your AI-enabled colleague struggles to focus without emojis and encouragement.
The condition
- (Clearly) AI-enablement is not an addiction.
- (Clearly) AI-enablement is not an illness.
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