How to Keep Up with AI At Work (Without Losing Your Mind)
7/12/202625 min
Artificial intelligence models have taken over the corporate world, and workers are trying to figure out how to collaborate with their new robot co-workers. In this first episode of “Work Mode,” a new series from The Journal on the evolution of work, WSJ’s Callum Borchers shares the strategies that work best and the pitfalls to avoid. And we hear from Michael Rueckert, AI power user who transformed his work life with Claude and leveraged his AI skills into a new start up. Ryan Knutson hosts.
Further Listening:
- How AI Is Being Trained to Do Your Job
- Microsoft’s CEO Has a Message: Don’t Let AI Eat the Economy
- The ‘Class of AI’ Enters the Workforce
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First 90 secondsRyan Knutson· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Recently, I called up my colleague Callum Borchers to talk about AI in the workplace, in our workplace, the Wall Street Journal, and workplaces in general. Do you use AI for work?
Callum Borchers· Guest0:19
You know, I do. Uh, maybe less so than, than some folks. I mean, it, it probably it's most helpful during our headline brainstorming session. You know, my editor and I often use it, uh... He, in fact, he jokingly refers to it as the intern, and I think that that's often a good way to, to think about it.
Ryan Knutson· Host0:36
[upbeat music] I tend to use it mostly like a research assistant, like a way more helpful version of Google, and I've gone to some newsroom training sessions about harnessing its potential while avoiding its pitfalls. This is probably where a lot of people are. You're hearing about it at work. You're dabbling a bit. But man, what exactly are we supposed to do? Callum's been talking to people on all sides of the AI conversation at work, both employees and bosses. His column, On the Clock, is about people's careers and work lives. How would you describe people are feeling about it?
Callum Borchers· Guest1:14
Uh, uneasy, I think is, is the word that comes to mind. I mean, I think that, you know, for every worker who sees some time savings, who sees some opportunity, there's another worker I talk to who feels really threatened by AI. And frequently, those,