How I Use AI

The thinking, experiences, and reflections in my articles are my own, and I have written or reworked the text myself.

Depending on the article, I may use AI to help me:

• explore a topic and identify useful questions
• find areas that require further research
• organise notes, sources, and early ideas
• support literature reviews and the comparison of different perspectives
• improve the structure, clarity, or flow of a draft
• review writing for gaps, repetition, or unclear explanations

For most articles, I write the initial content myself and then use AI to help me improve the writing, sharpen the structure, or express an idea more clearly. Sometimes I ask it to draft a section at my direction, or suggest a starting point when I am looking for the right flow, and I treat what comes back as material to think with rather than as finished work. Every article begins with my own interests, questions, experiences, or ideas, and while AI may help me develop those ideas, it does not decide the purpose of a piece. Throughout the process, I remain responsible for the direction and conclusions of the article. I decide what is included, what is removed, how an argument is framed, and whether the final article genuinely reflects what I think and want to communicate.

There are things I do not use it for. It does not choose what I write about, and it does not settle what I think about a subject once I have started writing. Nothing is generated and published automatically. For research-based articles I go back to the original sources behind the claims that matter rather than relying on an AI summary of them, because a summary is where an error is easiest to inherit and hardest to notice.

That said, AI tools are not infallible, and neither am I. Errors or incomplete interpretations may still make it through, and if you find one, I would rather hear about it than not.

The shorter posts I publish on LinkedIn and Instagram are usually derived from these articles, and in those cases I do use AI to help automate the process. What goes into each post, and how it is written, is still something I decide and refine. Some of the images I use are generated too.

Every article on this site ends with a short note describing how AI was used in that particular piece.

AI does not decide what I believe or what I publish. I see it as a tool for extending curiosity and improving the way we think and work, not as a substitute for judgement, experience, or human responsibility, and part of the purpose of this blog is to explore that relationship honestly as it continues to evolve.