The Frontier Diagnostic

Which of the four profiles are you?

Twelve statements about how you actually work with AI. Answer honestly — three minutes, no account, and nobody sees your result unless you choose to share it.

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Conservation zoneDynamic mastery zoneDelegation zone Work done as beforeAI drafts · the person keeps judgmentJudgment transferred, unnoticed JUDGMENT KEPTBY THE PERSON SHARE OF THE WORKDONE BY AI USE OF AI, INCREASING → you are here
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1I use an AI tool to produce a first draft of a work document (email, memo, analysis, plan) at least a few times a week.

2I check at least one specific fact, figure, or citation in an AI output against a real source before relying on it.

3When an AI output reads as confident, polished, and complete, that makes me more careful, not less.

4Outputs I produce with AI help inform decisions that affect people beyond me — my team, a client, a budget.

5Before acting on an AI output, I ask what question it is actually answering — and whether that's the question I should be asking.

6Looking back at my last AI-assisted piece of work, I could not clearly say which parts were mine and which were generated.

7When I receive an AI-drafted output, I send or act on it close to as-is, with light edits rather than a substantial rewrite.

8I actively look for what the output does not mention — a missing stakeholder, an unstated risk, a case where the recommendation fails — before I act on it.

9I could list, for my last AI-assisted output, the assumptions it depends on and who could confirm each one.

10If AI tools were unavailable for a week, the volume of work I produce would drop noticeably.

11I keep some record — notes, a comment, a decision log — of the questions an AI output raised and how they were answered.

12I ask an AI tool for a first take on a question before I have formed my own view of it.