Yes I know this headline may sound counter-intuitive, why should I not let AI save me tons of time and energy?
In case you missed out on the story that went viral this week – here’s Meta AI security officer, Yue Summer, trying to control the AI agent that flipped out inside her Email that she had to pull out the power plug to stop AI from demolishing her inbox:
3 Reasons Why Not Let AI Manage Our Building Blocks
1. It won’t – currently people working with AI inside their Inbox, Calendar or tasks, constantly check to see if the AI tool really got all their tasks from all channels, checking if AI really picked the ones assigned to them , did it really delete the right emails, did it really reply to the right ones and so forth.
2. AI is great when you have established a really fantastic manual process – after which you can automate and scale it with AI. To create such a protocol one must invest time and energy, dig out all scenarios, check up with all parties involved.
AI will not save us from our own errors in protocols, quite the opposite – it will scale those errors to a bigger wider range.
3. Our emails, tasks and events are the most important building blocks for life and work.
When this infrastructure isn’t solid, then work isn’t efficient.
Being efficient and effective each day is a matter of processing changing variables and responding accurately to them.
AI will not know if management changed priorities this morning, AI will not know if we woke up ill this morning, nor if our child couldn’t go to school – which will naturally have direct impact on how we plan out our day, our meetings, our tasks.
Only we know the entire magnitude of considerations and variables that make up our work and life, so we should be the only ones making decisions and acting on which emails should be treated, which events should be reschedules, which tasks should be attended to today, under the constantly changing work constraints.
