7 ways AI is being used at work by everyone from teachers to marketing professionals

People in a wide range of fields are using AI for things like lesson plans and deciphering industry jargon.

Artificial intelligence is permeating workplaces, changing the nature of jobs of every stripe.Teachers are using it to create lesson plans and grade papers. Marketing professionals are harnessing it to work a room and learn about the needs of potential clients. Product managers are asking AI to serve as an interpreter when technical conversations went over their heads in meetings.Some people who employ AI tools are concerned that widespread use of the technology could erode critical thinking skills, especially among children. They also caution that AI-assisted work needs to be checked carefully because the tools have been known to hallucinate and make mistakes.Here are some ways that people with a range of jobs use artificial intelligence to save time and generate ideas.

One creative way Kristin Moore, a technical product manager at PERQ, a digital marketing platform for property management companies, uses AI is to help ensure she understands her colleagues’ technically advanced conversations. If she’s in a meeting and engineers talk through a topic in a way that she doesn’t grasp, she can upload the recorded conversation through Claude, AI assistant built by Anthropic, and ask it to summarize what she needs to do to follow up.“It picks up on all of that terminology that I don’t understand, and it can simplify it into something that I can consume,” Moore said.She also asks the AI tool to read through emails, support tickets,........

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