My honest AI manifesto
I use AI tools constantly. Here's where I stop.
People who spend serious time with AI prompting get a version of the same question eventually: how much of what you publish is actually you?
It’s a fair question, and I’d rather answer it directly than let the ambiguity sit.
I use AI tools every day. For research, for drafts, for working out whether a prompt structure is doing what I think it’s doing. If you’re writing seriously about how these systems respond to language, actually using them isn’t optional. Distance would make the writing worse.
But there are things I won’t let AI do on my behalf, and I think the prompting community, more than most, understands why that distinction matters.
People who work closely with these models know how good they are at producing confident, fluent output on almost any topic. They also know how often that output is wrong, averaged, or missing the specific judgment that comes from a real person with a real position.
I wrote my own AI manifesto because I wanted a clear account of where I stand, in writing, that I can be held to. What I’ll use AI for, what I won’t, and why the line sits where it does. It’s a short document, only
Download it here…
This is one manifesto. Written by one person, from one set of experiences with these tools. If reading this has made you think about where your own lines sit, that’s worth more than agreeing with mine.
So write it down. Not for an audience, not as a public statement, just for yourself. What you’ll do. What you won’t. Why the line sits where it does.
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