Guidance Note: We are not looking for your opinion on AI. We are looking for a moment.
A specific time when something changed. When AI helped in a way that unsettled you. When it failed in a way that cost you something. When you noticed a skill slipping, a relationship shifting, or a habit forming that you did not choose.
It does not have to be dramatic. The quieter the moment, the more useful it often is.
When you reach the story field, tell us: what you were doing, what the machine did, what you felt, what you did next, and whether anything has been different since.
One honest paragraph is worth more than a thousand words of opinion.
Here is an example from the author's own experience:
"I used AI to help produce a Statement of Work for a client. It was polished, professional, and detailed. My colleague reviewed it. The client signed it.
Everything looked fine until project close, when the client came back asking for deliverables I had assumed were extras but which were already written into the document I had sent them. Fluent prose had hidden weak thinking, and neither of us had caught it.
We retrofitted the work. We absorbed the cost. The client did not return.
That feeling was not simply professional embarrassment. It was something colder. I had built a career on earned knowledge and careful judgement. I had let a machine produce a legal document in my name that I had not scrutinised closely enough, and it had failed a client and damaged a relationship I could not repair. The ease had pulled me in and I had let it."
That is the kind of story we are looking for. Not an opinion. A moment with a cost.
Your submission may be used in the book AI Ate My Brain by David Thomas. You will be contacted before anything is published. Your preference on anonymity will be respected in full.
