Artificial intelligence, in my view, is not what gets you hired, for a job or for an assignment. or for your LinkedIn personal profile.

So why use it as a crutch?

I offer you these self-thought ideas:

  • Use your brain. (Uh, that’s a no-brainer…)
  • Not a gigantic server.
  • Use the natural intelligence you bring into the room with you everywhere you go.
  • Not what you can whip forth from queries via your laptop or smartphone, resubmitting until you finally get something usable.
  • Your career is time well-spent: the years, decades, lifetime of rich experience and tested ideas that you draw upon. And believe in. And invest in.
  • Not a hack to save you time. No notches get carved in the proverbial stick from AI.
  • And you may make so many changes to the AI response you get back that you could have written it yourself faster, better, smarter, more personally, and more believably.

Honestly, why ask a machine to describe you on LinkedIn, when you can do it so much better?

Why risk looking like the rest of the candidates using the same tool?

If you cannot do it yourself, get help from another human. Once you are set on the right path, that coach’s care and advice will serve you for a lifetime.

AI cannot. It doesn’t care. And it is not offering advice. AI is ambivalent about you. It doesn’t check back to see how you are doing, or congratulate on winning that assignment. It is enslaved to the latest person asking artifical help.

Besides, you are smarter than AI, by far.