Where do you personally draw the line between using AI as a tool and letting AI do the work for you?

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Summary

The article questions the ethical boundary between using AI as a tool versus letting AI perform tasks, comparing it to historical technologies like calculators and Google.

This question gets surprisingly complicated. Using AI to fix grammar? Most people seem fine with that. Using it to brainstorm ideas? Probably fine Using it to write the first draft? Depends who you ask. Using it to do the entire assignment while you barely understand the topic? That's where most people would probably draw the line But the line keeps moving Calculators, spellcheck, Google and autocomplete were all seen as shortcuts at some point. Now they're just normal tools. Do you think AI will follow the same pattern? Or is there something fundamentally different about outsourcing actual thinking?
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