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Using AI

Use AI thoughtfully in the work you already do—from asking better questions to checking what comes back.

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Using AI

When not to use AI

Everybody asks what they should use AI for. Almost nobody asks what they should not, because nobody selling it is incentivised to answer. The work it is worst at, why you cannot feel the difference, and what must never go in at all.

By Kingsley Ijomah

Using AI

How to check AI output before you trust it

A better brief gets you a better draft. It does not tell you whether the draft is right. One in 277 peer-reviewed papers now cites work that was never written, and the checking nobody taught you is the part of the job that is left.

By Kingsley Ijomah

Using AI

How to ask AI better questions

Everyone has a folder of prompts copied from somewhere, and it never works as well as they expect. The problem is the folder. Prompting is specification, not incantation, and four habits cover almost all of it.

By Kingsley Ijomah

Using AI

Why AI sounds right when it is wrong

Something it produced read well, went into a report, and turned out to be invented. Five behaviours explain why, and not one is a bug waiting to be fixed.

By Kingsley Ijomah