Accountability at work.
THE POSITION
Work you submit is your work.
Errors in it are your errors, whatever produced the draft.
WHAT THIS MEANS
Read everything before submitting Check every fact and figure Check every commitment
WHAT WILL NOT HELP YOU
"The AI produced it."
That is not a defence, and it suggests you did not check.
FOR WORK IN SOMEONE ELSE'S NAME
Correspondence you draft for a manager becomes theirs.
Errors reflect on them and then on you.
FOR PROFESSIONAL WORK
Your professional obligations are unchanged.
FOR ANYTHING PUBLISHED
Your organisation carries the liability, and you carry the internal consequence.
WHAT TO DO
Verify in proportion to consequence Say when you are uncertain Never submit anything you have not read
THE TEST
Could you defend this as your own work?
