AI tools have slipped into everyday work. They are drafting emails, analyzing data, generating first passes at creative projects. And while the breathless headlines focus on disruption and displacement, the more interesting questions are subtler: What happens to expertise when the baseline shifts? Which human capacities become more valuable, not less? And what do we actually want work to be about?

Discussion Questions

To start

What's one way AI has already shifted how you work?
What part of your job would you gladly hand off to AI tomorrow?

The interesting middle

Is AI changing jobs, or mostly changing tasks within jobs? Does that distinction matter?
What skill or capacity do you think is becoming more valuable because of AI?
Where do you see over-trust in AI showing up at work right now?

Values and meaning

What part of work do you think should remain human, even if it doesn't have to be?
Does AI make work feel more human (by freeing us up) or less (by raising the stakes)?
If productivity keeps climbing, what do we hope work becomes about?

Light provocation

Is using AI at work "cheating," strategic, or just the new baseline?
In ten years, what will we find quaint about this moment?

To close

After everything we've discussed: what's one personal principle you want to hold onto when using AI in your work?

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