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AI Collaboration

Use AI as a bounded collaborator for drafting, exploration, transformation, critique, and checking while keeping verification, judgment, privacy, and target human skills explicit.

• Use AI to Scaffold Code, Then Make Tests DecideUse AI to produce a first implementation for a bounded coding task, then inspect the diff, run tests, add missing edge cases, and reject code you cannot explain. A controlled exper
• Rehearse a Difficult Conversation with AI Before the Real OneBefore a difficult but ordinary conversation, use AI to role-play several plausible reactions, practise a concise opening, and identify points where you may become unclear or defen
• Let AI Draft Routine Replies, Keep the Human on the ConversationFor repetitive support or service messages, AI can propose a response from the case facts and approved guidance while the human checks diagnosis, policy, tone, and the actual next
• Use AI to Widen the Option Set, Not Make the DecisionWhen a decision feels binary or prematurely settled, ask AI for plausible alternatives, missing criteria, and arguments against your current favorite. Verify factual claims indepen
• Use AI to Widen the Idea Set Before You ChooseWhen you are stuck on the first obvious idea, use AI to generate alternatives across different assumptions or constraints. Experimental evidence suggests generative AI can raise ju
• Attempt First, Use AI for Feedback, Retest Without ItFor learning tasks, make a genuine attempt before asking AI to explain, critique, or extend your work, then reproduce the target skill without assistance. Recent evidence on genera
• Turn Meeting Notes into Actions, Then Reconcile ThemAfter a meeting, use AI to convert permitted notes or a transcript into decisions, actions, owners, dates, and open questions. Then reconcile the structured output against the orig
• Draft Professional Writing with AI, Then Take Back the EditFor routine professional writing, give AI the purpose, audience, constraints, and source facts, ask for a draft, then revise it yourself. Controlled evidence supports productivity
• Give AI a Rubric and Ask for Specific CritiqueFor a draft you own, give AI the purpose and a short rubric, ask it to point to specific places that miss the criteria, then decide which suggestions actually improve the work. Use
• Turn Real Examples into a Draft SOP with AIWhen a recurring task lives mostly in someone's head, give AI a few sanitized examples and ask for a draft procedure with inputs, steps, decisions, outputs, and exceptions. Validat
• Summarize with AI, Then Reconcile Against the SourceFor a long document you are allowed to process, ask AI for a structured summary tied to the source, then verify the claims that will affect a decision, message, or deliverable. The
• Extract a Table with AI, Then Sample-Check the RowsFor repeated unstructured text you are allowed to process, ask AI to extract a fixed schema, include the source span for each row, and flag uncertainty. Then sample-check rows and
• Benchmark AI on the Task Before You Trust the WorkflowAI performance is uneven across tasks that can look similarly difficult. Before redesigning a workflow around a model, run it on representative cases, score the outputs against a h
• Ask AI for Failure Cases Before You ShipGive AI a feature, process, calculation, message, or workflow and ask for edge cases and failure modes. Treat the output as a candidate list, deduplicate it, verify relevance, and