Delegate.
Let AI handle work that can appropriately be handed over.
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What Should Remain Mine?
How to Delegate, Collaborate, and Think for Yourself in the Age of AI
Deveendra MurmuForthcoming
A forthcoming book
ForthcomingWhat Should Remain Mine?
How to Delegate, Collaborate, and Think for Yourself in the Age of AI
AI can increasingly do things that once required our own thinking. But the ability to delegate something does not automatically mean we should.
What should we hand over? When should we collaborate? And what should we retain because the human work itself matters?
The central framework
Delegate. Collaborate. Retain.
These are not rigid rules. The appropriate mode depends on the task, the context, what is at stake, and what participation means to the person doing the work.
Collaborate.
Use AI as a thinking partner while remaining engaged in the work and its judgment.
Retain.
Keep responsibility or participation where handing it over would compromise something important.
Who the book is for
Neither total adoption nor total rejection.
For readers who want to use AI intelligently without treating either total adoption or total rejection as the answer.
About the author
Deveendra Murmu
Deveendra Murmu is a nonfiction author with an engineering background and more than three decades of experience in information technology. His writing explores technology, human behavior, judgment, social influence, and everyday life.
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