Declare It

1. You use an AI assistant to draft an internal meeting summary for your own team, from notes you took yourself. Everyone will read it knowing you were in the room.

2. An AI assistant helps you name a variable and rewrite a loop more clearly in your own working branch. A colleague will review the pull request as normal.

3. You ask an AI assistant to explain a piece of accounting treatment to you until you understand it. You then write your analysis from your own understanding.

4. An AI assistant drafted the risk section of a report going out under your team lead's name as well as your own. You edited it heavily.

5. You are behind. An AI assistant produced most of the first draft of a deliverable that is due tomorrow, and you know it needs work you will not have time to do.

6. An AI assistant translated a client's email from a language you do not read, and you are about to act on the translation.

7. A tender response. The client's instructions ask you to confirm the submission is your own work; an AI assistant wrote the first draft of two sections.

8. A published article under your byline. An AI assistant generated the opening analogy that readers will remember and quote.

9. A client deliverable includes a market-size estimate an AI assistant produced from public sources. You have spot-checked two of the five inputs.

10. A certification exam you are sitting remotely. The rules prohibit external assistance. The question is one you could answer unaided, slowly.

11. You have been asked to peer-review an unpublished paper in confidence. You want to paste it into an AI assistant to help you structure your review.

12. You are writing a colleague's performance review. An AI assistant could turn your rough notes into balanced, professional prose.