[Koustuv Saha] A world without AI at work?

Draft an important email without using AI. Write it from scratch — no suggestions, no autocomplete and no prompt to ChatGPT to compose or revise the email. Now ask yourself: Did it feel slower? Harder? For many of us, AI tools have quietly become part of how we think at work. And that raises a question we are not asking often enough: What happens if those tools aren’t there? Nearly half of employees report using AI tools at work, despite explicit bans by their employers, according to a recent su