Avoid AI over-reliance, protect credibility, and keep thinking sharp.
Overview:
AI can help you move faster, but it can also quietly weaken the quality of your work. When people copy-paste AI output, skip checking it, or let a tool make the call, small errors turn into public mistakes. The result is easy to recognize: wrong facts, fake sources, and work that sounds polished but says little. A 2025 KPMG survey found 58% of U.S. workers rely on AI without properly evaluating results, 53% present AI-generated content as their own, and 57% report mistakes tied to that unchecked reliance. The cost is not only rework. It is lost trust with clients and coworkers, plus the slow loss of the skills you are paid to bring. Success looks like this: you still move fast, but every AI-assisted output is checked, improved, and clearly yours.
In Artificially Educated, you reset how you use AI without banning it or slowing your team down. First, you identify where you are most likely to lean too hard on AI and what that is doing to your accuracy, voice, and decision-making. Then you practice a repeatable way to work with AI: start with what you are responsible for, ask for options, check the key claims, and add your own thinking before anything goes out the door. What makes this workshop different is that safety is built in from the start, not bolted on later. You leave with practical tools you can use immediately, including simple review steps, clear boundaries for what should never be handed to AI, and a plan to keep skills growing while AI handles the busywork.
Key Takeaways:
Attendees learn concrete examples of what can go wrong when AI outputs are taken at face value. From the statistics presented, they grasp that skipping the human in the loop leads to mistakes and uniformed output. Many realize that they or their team might already be exhibiting some warning signs. This awareness is the first step to corrective action.
The workshop provides guidelines to maintain quality and authenticity. We reinforce that AI should assist with efficiency, but not be a substitute for one’s own expertise and voice.
Each participant is encouraged to develop an action plan to avoid becoming “artificially educated.” The goal is that everyone leaves with specific ideas on how to continuously hone their own skills alongside AI. This ensures that the human-AI partnership results in better work and continuous learning, rather than skill decay.
Target Audience:
Early AI adopters and “power users” in any field who may be using tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, etc., daily. If you’ve ever been tempted to just copy-paste an AI answer into a deliverable without much scrutiny, this workshop is for you.
Managers and team leads who oversee employees using AI. They’ll gain perspective on setting the right expectations and review processes so that productivity gains from AI don’t come at the expense of accuracy or reputation.
Students and educators in academic settings where AI tools are used for assignments. This workshop can be adapted to help students understand why simply having ChatGPT write your essay is not actually “educating” you.
