"I Don't Know, AI Wrote It"

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AI isn’t good or bad. It’s a tool. But a tool doesn’t take responsibility for what you build with it. You do.

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A familiar scene

Someone at work shares a long, polished document. You ask a simple question: where does this number come from? And the answer is: “I don’t know, AI wrote it.”

The first time, it’s funny. By the fifth time, it’s a problem.

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AI is neutral

This isn’t an anti-AI post. I use AI every day, and if you refuse to use it, you’ll fall behind. But like any technology, it makes what you’re already doing faster. Careful people turn out more careful work. Careless people turn out more careless work.

The abuse isn’t using AI. It’s sharing content you can’t defend. Generating ten pages takes thirty seconds, but reading them carefully still takes an hour, so if you didn’t check them, you’ve handed that work to everyone who reads them.

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Take accountability

You can delegate the work, but you can’t delegate the accountability. Nobody accepts “the compiler wrote it” when a build breaks. Once you share something, it’s yours.

My test is simple: if the AI vanished right now, could I explain this and answer questions about it? If not, it’s not ready to send.

Use AI. Use it a lot. Just make sure you’re not the one in the room who doesn’t know what’s in your document.