How Do You Use AI? A ‘Free Press’ Symposium

This week, “The Wall Street Journal” ran an op-ed written with the help of artificial intelligence. Its editorial page editor, Paul Gigot, defended the author’s work, calling the use of AI “a fact of modern life.” But when, if at all, does this cross a line?

Given our line of work here at “The Free Press,” this story caught our attention. That’s because it’s not only about a single essay at a major newspaper: AI is reshaping how people from all walks of life make decisions and do their work, introducing profound benefits and trade-offs—ones most of us never anticipated.

So, we decided to ask the people themselves—teachers and religious leaders, AI enthusiasts and skeptics—to tell us how they’re actually using the technology (or choosing not to) in their daily lives. Here’s what they had to say. —The Editors

I haven’t figured out how to use AI for work yet, and I know that makes me a dinosaur, but I just like what I do and how I do it. It’s fine. It works.