Knowing where to stop.
DO NOT USE IT FOR
Final decisions about people: hiring, firing, credit, admission
Medical diagnosis or treatment decisions Legal advice you will act on without review Anything where a confident error causes serious harm Anything you cannot verify and cannot afford to be wrong about
DO NOT USE IT WHEN
The task is faster done directly You lack the knowledge to judge the output Confidentiality prevents sending the material Professional obligations restrict it
DO NOT USE IT AS
A source of facts A substitute for expertise A decision-maker An excuse for output you did not check
WHERE PROFESSIONAL RULES APPLY
Medicine, law, accountancy, engineering and others have obligations that do not bend.
Check what your professional body says.
THE ACCOUNTABILITY POINT
A system cannot be responsible. If you send it, publish it or act on it, it is yours.
THE SIMPLE TEST
Would you be comfortable explaining to an affected person that a machine produced this and nobody checked?
If not, check it.
