I have a boss who tells us weekly that everything we do should start with AI. Researching? Ask ChatGPT first. Writing an email or a document? Get ChatGPT to do it.
They send me documents they “put together” that are clearly ChatGPT generated, with no shame. They tell us that if we aren’t doing these things, our careers will be dead. And their boss is bought in to AI just as much, and so on.
I feel like I am living in a nightmare.
I’m in an environment with various level of sensitive data, including very sensitive data. Think GDPR type stuff you really don’t want to accidentally leak.
One day when we started up our company laptops Copilot just was installed and auto launched on startup. Nobody warned us. No indication about how to use it or not use it. That lasted about 3 months. Eventually they limited some ways of using it, gave a little bit of guidance on not putting the most sensitive data in there. Then they enabled Copilot in most apps that we use to actually process the sensitive data. It’s in everything. We are actively encouraged to learn more about it and use it.
I overheard a colleague recently trying to let it create a whole PowerPoint presentation. From what I heard the results were less than ideal.
The scary thing is that I’m in a notoriously risk averse industry. Yet they do this. It’s… a choice.