Exploring Artificial Intelligence Tool Use in a Nonprofit Workplace

Abstract

This case study offers examples of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) writing tools at a small nonprofit workplace dispute resolution center. It explores the limits and strengths of these AI tools, as well as the mediation field's concerns around using AI as a replacement for mediation work. Further, it explores the implications of AI tool use for the ethos of the writer and the AI tool itself as well as for the current pedagogy deliberations occurring in the technical writing field at large.

Keywords

artificial intelligence workplace ethos nonprofit pedagogy

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