Anna Moloney was an AI Luddite. Then she discovered it could help her do her taxes. She tells us about (slightly) embracing ChatGPT in today’s Notebook

What converted me to ChatGPT?

A couple of years ago, I became a company director – a woman in business if you will. Anna Moloney Ltd, a fated venture, was set up in order to facilitate some freelance writing work I was doing for Litcharts, the sister site of online study guide giant Sparknotes. But while dishing out my wisdom on Moby Dick for that year’s GCSE cohorts, I myself was being schooled in the terrifying world of HMRC.

Reader, I’ll cut to the chase, Anna Moloney LTD’s taxes – while paid, don’t worry – have not been in good filing order. And it was this weekend, through gritted teeth, that I decided to address it.

Grappling with personal agency is a key theme in Moby Dick. “Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm?,” Captain Ahab asks. So too did newly appointed CEO Anna Moloney: was it really the fault of me, a wee girl who flinches at numbers, that I couldn’t figure out how to navigate........

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