It sounds like advice about a tool. It is a question about your table.

Invite the thing to everything, Mollick says, and most people hear a productivity tip. Try it on the deck, the email, the analysis, and keep whatever sticks.

Run it for a week and be honest, and you find something less flattering.

Some of what you do survives the invitation intact — the call where you read the room, the decision with no clean answer, the paragraph only you could write because only you knew what was at stake. Sit the machine at that table and it contributes, then defers.

Other work does not survive at all.

The status update that took forty minutes. The formatting pass you called analysis. The meeting whose only output was a summary of the meeting.

Invite the machine to those and it returns, in seconds, something the room would have approved — which tells you the room was never deciding anything. It was formatting.

That is the part people avoid, and they avoid it by not inviting.

Not because they doubt the tool. Because a chair pulled out is a test, and the test grades the task, not the machine. Keep the work in your head, undescribed, and it stays safe from a verdict you would rather not read.

The verdict is worth having anyway. Every hour that fails the test is an hour you can stop spending, and you get about thirty thousand of these days to spend.

So today: take the task you would least like to hand over — the one you protect with it needs my touch — and hand it over once. Twenty minutes.

If what comes back is worse, you have proof your judgment was in there all along. If it comes back fine, you did not lose a skill this morning. You found an afternoon you can have back.