ActivityAbout two minutes
Would you paste this?
Sort everyday things into fine, only with changes, or never, and leave with your own list.
Try itThe library.
Our articles, research and activities, sorted by what they’re about. You read them or try them online, and every piece shows its sources so you can check our working.
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An agent at work.
An agent is an AI tool that’s been connected to your other apps, so it can do a job across them. Pick a job and watch it work.
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Gmail -
Google Calendar
The agent
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Xero -
Google Docs -
Google Sheets
Pick a job
Each job runs a step at a time. You’ll see which app the agent reaches into, and where it stops for you.
Every step is a chance for something to go wrong, which is why the ones that speak for you wait for a person. See how the chances stack up.
Book a meeting from an email
- Gmail. Reads an email asking to meet next week.
- Google Calendar. Checks when you’re free.
- Gmail. Drafts a reply offering two times.
- Stops. The reply goes out in your name, so it waits for you.
- Gmail. Sends the reply.
- Google Calendar. Holds both times in your calendar.
Chase overdue invoices
- Xero. Finds the invoices more than 30 days overdue.
- Google Docs. Reads your notes on how you like reminders worded.
- Gmail. Drafts a reminder for each client.
- Stops. It’s about money and it’s in your name, so it waits for you.
- Gmail. Sends the reminders.
- Google Sheets. Notes who was chased, and when.
Answer a customer on WhatsApp
- WhatsApp. A customer asks if you can come on Friday.
- Google Calendar. Checks Friday.
- Google Docs. Looks up your call-out details in your notes.
- WhatsApp. Drafts a reply with the times that suit.
- Stops. It speaks for the business, so it waits for you.
- WhatsApp. Sends it.
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Each one teaches a habit our sessions teach, by having you do it.
ActivityAbout a minute
Twenty steps
Watch the odds of getting everything right fall as an AI chains steps together.
Try itActivityAbout three minutes
Check this answer
A confident answer with five references, and one of them doesn’t exist.
Try itActivity
An agent at work
Watch an AI agent do an everyday job across your apps, and see where it stops for you.
Try itActivityAbout ten minutes
Seventy years in one scroll
AI from 1950 to ChatGPT. Eight times someone sounded sure: call whether it held up.
Try itFree to use.
Reference you can use without us. Every fact names its source and the date we read it, and the research behind it is open.
The shelves.
Eleven topics, from where AI came from to what it changes for the people doing the work. Shelves fill up as each piece is checked.
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Where it came from
How we got here, from 1950 to the chatbot in your browser.
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How it works
What a language model actually does when it answers you.
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Where it goes wrong
Confident wrong answers, and the tools that claim to catch them.
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Asking well
How to ask so the first answer is close to what you need.
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Checking the output
How to check an answer before anyone relies on it.
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Keeping data safe
What stays out of the chat box, and who can see what goes in.
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Choosing what to change
Finding the jobs worth changing, including when the answer isn’t AI.
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Agents and automation
What agents and automations can do, and what they can’t be trusted with.
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Tools
Which tool suits which job, dated, because they change.
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Rules and responsibility
What the rule-makers have published, and what to ask your adviser.
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People and work
What changes for the people doing the work.
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