There was a time when staring at a blank Word document was just part of life. You opened the file, hated every sentence you wrote, rewrote it anyway, and somewhere between the third bad draft and the final one you learned something about the work and about yourself. Today, that same moment feels optional. If you are a student, you can paste the question into a chatbot and get a “good enough” draft in a few seconds. If you are early in your career, you can outsource the

Most people are being pushed to “try” AI products long before anyone explains why they should trust them. The result is predictable. Tools that are meant for convenience end up in workflows where they are making, or heavily shaping, decisions about grades, hiring, money, health, or access to services. The problem that the bar for using AI currently is “it looks smart and the demo is fun.” That is fine when you are turning a selfie into an ghibli character. It is much less fin

If you use a private AI tool to draft your emails faster, that is your choice. If a school, court, or welfare office uses a private AI tool to decide what happens to you, that is a different category of decision entirely. Right now, those lines are blurring. Governments and public institutions are under pressure to be “modern” and “data-driven”, and AI products are being marketed as the quickest way there. It is easy enough to plug in a commercial model to rank applications,