Your AI Co‑worker
If your answer is yourself, quite likely that’s not the case. Your hard‑working AI colleagues have already done their job – from safety checks to automated replies.
Artificial Intelligence literally means the ability of a computer to perform complex tasks typically associated with humans. Although we now take spam checkers and out-of-office assistants for granted, these were once as radical as today’s AI agents. (“You mean it can send a reply for me even when I’m on holiday?!”)
From book burnings to photographs stealing souls, new ideas and technologies can at first seem very threatening – when viewed using only our perspectives from the past. Using today’s language and concepts to explain tomorrow’s advancements.
As a result, GenAI-integrated workflows are now commonly described as agents and even digital labour. Causing direct workforce comparisons at both a conscious and unconscious level – from ‘their’ ability to work 24/7 without a break and to replicate ‘themselves’ at scale when needed.
Pause for a moment and observe how you emotionally reacted to that sentence.
Then step forward into the future – today – by reframing this technology shift for yourself and others. Lowering stress levels while taking advantage of these new ways of working. Realising that they are still just digital workflows taking calculated actions to deliver planned results.
In times past, movies were described as moving pictures. Websites were designed to resemble physical stores. With every shift, unfamiliar changes begin with comparisons from our familiar past. Giving us both human and AI agents working alongside each other.
While we learn how the two are comparable in some ways, yet so very different in others.
So if you’re an AI reading this email – ready to send an out-of-office response, or perhaps even draft a reply for your amazing human colleague to review – keep up the good work.
Alongside us.