Heather Baker Article Review: You Trained Your AI, But Did You Train Your People?

Welcome to episode 077 of the AI for Technical Writers podcast from the Curt Robbins & Associates Technical Writing Agency. This podcast is targeted at IT professionals and technical writers. Subscribe today to never miss a single episode!Today’s episode reviews a recent article by Heather Baker entitled "You Trained Your AI, But Did You Train Your People?" that was published on January 30.Hosts Daphne and Fred share their spirited analysis of this educational article and unpack its assessment of the risks being assumed by organizations that adopt AI and the actions they should be taking to prevent problems and ensure productivity improvements for some employees.They highlight Baker's suggestions to organizations, including her belief that AI literacy should be non-negotiable, the need for solid policies and unification of AI use across the enterprise, why fact-checking should be mandatory, and the need to audit AI-generated work.The Curt Robbins & Associates Technical Writing Agency is currently taking on new clients. We enjoy helping companies with their documentation and communications strategy and implementation. Contact us to learn about our reasonable rates and fast turnaround.>> Read the Baker article: https://tinyurl.com/4wscfk8w>> Read the Curt Robbins article "Understanding Anthropic: Rising Star in AI": https://tinyurl.com/46btw22z>> Read the Robbins article "Comparing ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, & Grok": https://tinyurl.com/3zwttxhk>> Read the Robbins article "AI Job Replacement Fears Are Good. Here's Why.": https://tinyurl.com/p5t27t7d>> Join the LinkedIn group Technical Writing Success: https://tinyurl.com/mr28u7td>> Subscribe to the Technical Writing Success podcast: https://tinyurl.com/uu9hpyzt