How AI-Brained Are You, Actually?
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini... can't tell if you should ask AI or just text a friend? Six levels of AI dependence — from full analog to full cyborg.
How Do You Actually Use AI? | 32 Types

AI comes out when there's a defined mission and goes back in the drawer when it's done. Pre-meeting research, drafting documents, summarizing data — AI gets deployed for clear tasks only, and everything else runs on your own judgment. Prompts are short, precise, no fluff. When the output lands, tab closed. If AI suggests a direction you don't like, you discard it without a second thought and do it your way. You're the orchestra conductor. AI is just one of the instruments.
In relationships too, you judge by actions and outcomes, not words. What matters is how someone actually shows up, not what they say they'll do. You've been known to ask AI "what's objectively wrong with this situation?" — and mean it completely unironically.
AI is a team member you deploy for specific deliverables — never the decision-maker. Drafting reports, running competitive analyses, summarizing research — AI handles the grunt work, you own the final call. Leadership plus AI literacy is a rare combo, and you've got both.
You keep paid AI subscriptions only when the productivity gains are genuinely measurable. Anything underperforming gets cancelled immediately; anything pulling weight gets maximized. There's an implicit cost-per-output calculation running in your head at all times.
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