Is AI Empowering You, Or Making You Average?

Two things happened to me recently that made me want to highlight this once again.

Someone asked me to peer review an article. It was clearly written entirely by AI - unaudited, unedited, presented as their own work. Around the same time, I sat in a workshop where the facilitator walked the audience through contents that were generated from a single prompt. No lived experience behind it. No interrogation of whether it was even accurate.

I walked out of that workshop. They lost a potential client.

What unsettled me was not the use of AI. I use it every day. What unsettled me was the absence of the person behind it. No judgment. No perspective. No evidence that anyone had actually thought about what they were presenting.

Common Pitfall of AI

I worry about a future where people with real, hard-earned experience become the minority -outnumbered by those presenting AI outputs as their own expertise, without ever interrogating what is behind it.

If I were starting my career today, the one thing I would commit to is learning what makes something extraordinary. Not just competent. Not just presentable. Extraordinary. The kind that comes from living through something, not pattern-matching it.

There is a reason AI outputs tend to look and sound alike regardless of how you prompt them. A study recently published by Oxford Academic confirms it - when large numbers of people use AI for creative tasks, their outputs converge toward the same limited set of ideas. If everyone uses AI to speak, we all start to sound the same.

What Differentiates People Who Are Empowered by AI, from Those Who Become "Meh"

I have met a lot of people whose lives have transformed, thanks to Generative AI. The leaders learned to elevate the team to bring unrealistic results, motivate them to be more self-driven, and bring visible values to the business. At a personal level, they learned to speak a new language, learned to speak better in public, learned to express their creativity. Every person I've met whose life genuinely transformed through AI had one thing in common - they went through the messy middle first. AI or no AI, if you want to be good at something - whether it's running a business or elevating yourself - you need to know the difference between what's good and what's not, and know the work required to be "good". AI is very good at mimicking to be the "good" - on surface, they all look polished, sound professional, and especially if you are not the expert in the work you just asked AI to do - you get amazed by it, and believe you have achieved the goal. Until, someone who understands the real quality looks at it, and see it through.

Let us all use AI to amplify what is already ours - our knowledge, our judgment, our point of view. If we don't have them, let AI be the guide - but don't close the loop only by talking with AI - learn from the experienced, learn from real life examples and experiences.

GetItDoneWith.AI helps SME owners and leaders to take the first steps to change the organization with AI. The question we help leaders answer is NOT "which AI tool should we use". It is "what do we bring to AI that it cannot bring to itself".

That's where the real transformation begins.