There is a simple rule that predicts almost every AI success and failure: <b>it is strong at words and weak at numbers and consequences.</b> Sort any task by that and you will be right most of the time.
Summarising something long. Rewriting something in simpler words. Translating. Finding every mention of a word across hundreds of pages. Suggesting ten titles when you only need one.
These are safe to hand over almost entirely, because the work is language and a mistake is cheap to spot and cheap to fix.
It predicts what a number looks like rather than working it out, so it should not add up your column of figures. Use a calculator or a spreadsheet.
It cannot verify facts about the world unless it can go and look, so names, dates, citations and statistics all need checking.
Deciding who gets a scholarship. Diagnosing an illness. Approving a payment. Signing that something is correct.
This is not a capability question that a better model will one day solve. Being accountable is something only a person can be, and no version number changes that.
Notice the shape: the safe pile is all reading and writing. The forbidden pile is all consequences.
In our free course you sort twelve real jobs into three piles and then find out which ones the guide would move, and why.
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