From grading papers to decoding jargon, how AI is changing work
From grading papers to decoding jargon, how AI is changing work
Publish Date: 2026-05-24 01:46:00
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Protesters gather with placards outside OpenAI offices during a march against unregulated artificial intelligence and data centers.
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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.
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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.
An analysis by the World Economic Forum of the jobs most impacted by AI.
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Unpacking jargon
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.
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“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, recorded meetings and conversations to determine what her clients would like her company to build.
“It’s definitely freed up hours and hours of my week,” Moore said.
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