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Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide

This essay originally appeared in The Guardian . I teach public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Munk School at the University of Toronto. And it will come as no surprise to you that my students regularly use AI to complete their writing assignments. Doing so is a waste of their tuition money. But if their entire career is going to include AI writing assistants, why shouldn’t they embrace their future? The best way I’ve found to explain the dilemma comes from the AI researcher Daniel

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Published: 30 July 2026
Source: Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security
Category: Field notes
Topics: Regulation · Children & education
Retrieved: 31 July 2026

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ethics.ai (30 July 2026), “Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide,” evidence record 15015, https://ethics.ai/record/15015 (originally published by Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security).

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