How often do you use AI in your job?

[Anonymous]

Don't use it as much as I do in my personal life. In marketing btw

[Anonymous]

I use it all the time at work. My biggest weakness is I'm direct and to the point. I use it to soften all of my communications (emails, slack messages, phrasing in documents)

[Anonymous]

Almost never. I’m a lawyer and all my experiences with it have been bad. The only exception is to get a non-client writing project started (like an alert for the firm blog). It can help break through writers block.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I use it all the time at work. My biggest weakness is I'm direct and to the point. I use it to soften all of my communications (emails, slack messages, phrasing in documents)

+1
I write a direct email - copy/paste it into AI and ask it to 'rewrite in a neutral succinct empathetic tone'. It's better at that then me.

[Anonymous]

I just did 15 performance reviews in an hour.
I started by having a meeting with each person where We jointly summarized what I though were their top hits. (This took time, but is easier for me than for writing up something for each person)
I encouraged them to use AI to write it for the review.
I exported each person their summary.
I put in a plain english response "This is all good and correct. Next year she should focus on being confident in her decisions."
And I asked Copilot to write my part of the review.
So fast.

[Anonymous]

I'm a lawyer. I never use it, either in my professional or personal life.

[Anonymous]

Never. I work on unclassified, but sensitive material and we don’t have an in-house solution.

[Anonymous]

At work no, but that might change with a new set of tools we might be required to use.

In my private life, I've had an interesting time using ChatGPT for my father's very complex medical profile that doctors insist on slow-walking. He's already been hospitalized for them, but didn't have much of a clue except "it's cardiac insufficiency". By the time they figure it out he might be dead. ChatGPT listed several rarer conditions that he might be suffering from (that might be causing the cardiac issues, or be comorbid with them), with its reasoning based on the extensive bloodwork results I gave it, and when my father raised those possibilities with one of his doctors, he got an updated list of exams to investigate them.

So... small success.

[Anonymous]

Lawyer- I use it to help me re write emails. It helps with my tone. I’m female and have always struggled with being too nice and taking on too much work. And then I swung to being too rude in emails. AI gives a good balanced middle tone.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely never. I’m in a legal position. At work I’m a very good writer and a pretty good thinker.

I hate the way AI is going to deprive people of jobs. I also think it often yields flawed or nonsensical or bland content.

If we all read more, talk more, and think more, we will all be better writers. AI is good for calculations or whatever, but let’s not turn over our thinking to a software program.

[Anonymous]

Also in a legal position and also never use AI. I have no problem crafting an email or letter.

[Anonymous]

Never. I know how to write emails.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Almost never. I’m a lawyer and all my experiences with it have been bad. The only exception is to get a non-client writing project started (like an alert for the firm blog). It can help break through writers block.

+1. AI gets so many things wrong that it’s a complete waste of my time. As for email tone, I already know how to adjust my tone to fit my audience. That’s my job.

[Anonymous]

Daily to help make my emails more concise

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lawyer- I use it to help me re write emails. It helps with my tone. I’m female and have always struggled with being too nice and taking on too much work. And then I swung to being too rude in emails. AI gives a good balanced middle tone.

The lawyers in this thread who are being so negative about AI simply don’t understand how vast it can be in its uses. It is such an awesome tool even if it can’t do a “legal” analysis. It can do the first draft of something like a blog post, it can create meeting minutes from a transcript, it can create detailed notes from a transcript, it can create a full PowerPoint presentation from a compliance document, it can help turn text into tables and develop databases, it can help create really advanced excel tools to do analyses, it can teach you how to create advanced templates. It’s amazing.