<aside> <img src="/icons/wind_orange.svg" alt="/icons/wind_orange.svg" width="40px" /> There’s no denying that AI is opening up a new era in human history. It’s already changing the way we live, work, think and even feel. There are a lot of other changes on the horizon that we are even not aware of yet.

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There are two sides we take during this change and we ask some questions to ourselves:

Will AI take over my job?

Will my skills be relevant in the future, if AI can do my tasks faster than I do?

Will humanity go extinct?

How can I make use of AI tools to further improve myself, or create new working fields and opportunities for myself?

How can I leverage the power of AI to work more efficiently, and to boost my creativity?

This is indeed a delicate subject to delve into. As we get more involved, we find ourselves in a vast, uncharted territory waiting to be explored. On this road to exploration, we discover further thought-provoking questions, concerns, and fears, as well as anticipations, expectations, and mind-blowing creations.

The utilisation areas of AI tools are inspiringly extensive and diverse while the question of what is the correct way of utilising these tools remains without an exact answer - and the concerns regarding the configuration and training of AI tools is a whole other discussion.

Everything you will find in this guide is created to provide you with the knowledge, and awareness that is needed to make informed decisions, be aware of the limitations of AI while benefiting the most from it, and use it within professional life as well as in your personal projects with the most mindful way possible.

With that in mind, here are some recommendations that you can contemplate before using any generative AI tool:

<aside> <img src="/icons/circle-dot_orange.svg" alt="/icons/circle-dot_orange.svg" width="40px" /> The sentimental aspect of the human touch is still relevant when it comes to generating any content. To effectively collaborate with AI and unite this conscious touch with the machine power of AI for more durable generations, provide it with some inputs from your own research and your own creations whenever you can so that AI can build upon it, instead of creating something from scratch.

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<aside> <img src="/icons/circle-dot_green.svg" alt="/icons/circle-dot_green.svg" width="40px" /> Generative AI tools also perform significantly better when they are given existing content, fed by information rather than generating something entirely new. Give it some data to analyse and inspect to get better outputs.

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<aside> <img src="/icons/circle-dot_purple.svg" alt="/icons/circle-dot_purple.svg" width="40px" /> While using AI for some of the tasks, we actually bypass many steps we would normally take in the progress of completion**.** The steps that have the potential to teach us something new, contribute to our self-development. If the subject in question is something you’re curious about, something you’re interested in that you’d enjoy spending time on, keep those potential learning moments in mind and make your decision as to whether or not to use an AI tool - or at which step to use it based on that thought.

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