Carol Roderick, PhD
@carolroderick.ca
AI adoption consultant in Halifax. I research the pressure to AI: what happens to people when they get pushed to adopt it at work. Author of AI Jargon: A Dictionary for the Rest of Us. PhD in Education.
Nineteen PDFs to find out which swim lessons exist. Three of them aren't even places. One is a 26 page brochure.
Gave the hour to AI. Got back two course codes and five ranked backups.
It didn't do anything clever. It made the list.
carolroderick.ca/using-ai-in-...
Gave the hour to AI. Got back two course codes and five ranked backups.
It didn't do anything clever. It made the list.
carolroderick.ca/using-ai-in-...
August 27, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Nineteen PDFs to find out which swim lessons exist. Three of them aren't even places. One is a 26 page brochure.
Gave the hour to AI. Got back two course codes and five ranked backups.
It didn't do anything clever. It made the list.
carolroderick.ca/using-ai-in-...
Gave the hour to AI. Got back two course codes and five ranked backups.
It didn't do anything clever. It made the list.
carolroderick.ca/using-ai-in-...
Someone describes their AI workflow to me. Forty minutes later, in the same call, they describe what they actually do on a Tuesday.
Two different accounts. Almost nobody notices they gave me both.
Two different accounts. Almost nobody notices they gave me both.
August 26, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Someone describes their AI workflow to me. Forty minutes later, in the same call, they describe what they actually do on a Tuesday.
Two different accounts. Almost nobody notices they gave me both.
Two different accounts. Almost nobody notices they gave me both.
Two thirds of office workers have used AI they believed was banned at work. A third deliberately hide it from their manager.
Almost every write-up of that survey called it a governance failure. I read it the other way round. The ban is what produces the hiding.
Almost every write-up of that survey called it a governance failure. I read it the other way round. The ban is what produces the hiding.
August 20, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Two thirds of office workers have used AI they believed was banned at work. A third deliberately hide it from their manager.
Almost every write-up of that survey called it a governance failure. I read it the other way round. The ban is what produces the hiding.
Almost every write-up of that survey called it a governance failure. I read it the other way round. The ban is what produces the hiding.