Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

5 Use Cases for AI

5 Use Cases for AI
Discover how AI transforms the workplace with creative writing, email marketing, and more in these five impactful use cases.

“Overall, the top five biggest use cases for gen AI in the workplace are creative writing, email marketing, idea generation, blog posts and writing product content.” (The AI in Business Trend Report 2023: Insights, Use Cases, and Sentiments from 500 Professionals)


Featured writing

When your brilliant idea meets organizational reality: a survival guide

Transform your brilliant tech ideas into reality by navigating organizational challenges and overcoming hidden resistance with this essential survival guide.

Server-Side Dashboard Architecture: Why Moving Data Fetching Off the Browser Changes Everything

How choosing server-side rendering solved security, CORS, and credential management problems I didn't know I had.

AI as Coach: Transforming Professional and Continuing Education

Transform professional and continuing education with AI-driven coaching, offering personalized support, accountability, and skill mastery at scale.

Books

The Work of Being (in progress)

A book on AI, judgment, and staying human at work.

The Practice of Work (in progress)

Practical essays on how work actually gets done.

Recent writing

When teaching stops being bounded

AI removes the constraints that gave teaching its shape—one teacher, thirty students, limited time. But lifting constraints doesn't make the work easier. It makes it different. Teachers trained for a bounded classroom now face an unbounded role that requires judgment, discernment, and presence in ways we haven't yet mapped.

Why your job matters more than mine: the selective morality of job loss

This article reveals the uncomfortable pattern behind which jobs get moral protection and which get called 'market forces'—and what that means for everyone outside the creative class.

AI in writing: the end of a professional monopoly

This article reframes the AI writing debate: the panic isn't about creativity—it's about a professional class losing control of the systems they've gatekept for a century.

Notes and related thinking

The Pitfalls of Over-reliance on AI

Discover how over-reliance on AI can hinder decision-making and diminish human skills, leading to missed opportunities and poor outcomes.

Mastering Tools like Make and Zapier

Unlock efficiency and reduce costs by mastering Make and Zapier to build tailored tech stacks and streamline your business operations.

Researchers Extend GPT-4 Prompting

Discover how researchers enhance GPT-4's capabilities with innovative prompting techniques, boosting productivity and unlocking new AI potential.