Overview
AI assistants are the starting point for most workplace AI adoption: use them to brainstorm, challenge ideas, analyze questions, draft text, and build judgment by comparing responses across tools.
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AI assistants
AI assistants are the starting point for most workplace AI adoption: use them to brainstorm, challenge ideas, analyze questions, draft text, and build judgment by comparing responses across tools.
What it is, how it works
- AI chatbots that can answer any question and write any text
- Best to brainstorm, challenge ideas, give feedback, create drafts
- For harder questions, ask a few to get a range of opinions
When not to use it
- Careful with confidential data. Review policies.
- Don't trust anything they say. Double-check and build trust slowly.
- Copy-paste their writing verbatim. It often "feels like AI"
How to get started
- If you are using Google Workspace, start with Gemini (included)
- For better integrations, try Claude side by side
- Use Microsoft's copilot for best integration with MS products
- Keep experimenting, they all change fast
Best practices / further reading
- Understand their key limitations
- Set up projects to avoid repeating yourself
- Give them access to your data via MCP
- If you catch yourself asking it to do the same thing twice, write skills