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Practical guides for working with AI

Clear, evidence-based answers about AI and ordinary work: whether your job is exposed, how to use AI well, what is safe to paste, and how to stay valuable as the tools improve.

Each guide answers one question properly, shows its sources, and is dated so you can see when it was last checked. How these guides are researched.

Using AI at work

25 Ways to Use AI to Make Your Job Easier

Real workflows rather than one-line tips. For each one: the task, the old way, the AI-assisted way, what you still have to check, and an instruction you can adapt.

22 minute read Reviewed 4 September 2026

Staying valuable

How to Stay Valuable at Work as AI Gets Better

The advice to "be creative and keep learning" is true and useless. This is what staying valuable looks like as specific, observable behaviour.

17 minute read Reviewed 4 September 2026

Using AI at work

My Boss Wants Me to Use AI. Where Do I Start?

You have been told to use AI, not shown how. Start with one recurring task, a written question about what is approved, and a result you can describe.

4 minute read Reviewed 7 September 2026

Reading is a start. Knowing where you stand is better.

The free Stay Useful assessment takes about five minutes and shows your AI Fluency, Leverage and Proof, and the one gap worth closing next.