AI Can Help You Write. It Shouldn’t Decide What You Think.
September 17, 2026 · Keith Pasley
LinkedIn is filling up with AI content.
You can usually recognize it:
- Same openings.
- Same short sentences.
- Same dramatic contrasts.
- Same five lessons.
- Same conclusion that everything is changing.
AI has made writing easier. It has also made average content much easier to produce.
I use AI when I write. The difference is what I expect it to do. I don’t ask AI what my opinion should be.
Instead, I start with the article, announcement, or technical development and ask myself:
- What changed?
- Why should an enterprise care?
- What decision does this create?
- What have I seen in the real world that adds context?
- Where do I disagree with the obvious interpretation?
Only after that does AI step in to help me research, challenge the argument, verify facts, and tighten the writing.
The experience and judgment still have to come from me.
That is going to become more important as AI-generated content increases. Information is already easy to get. Content is becoming easy to create. But a point of view you earned through experience is much harder to copy.
Use AI to make your thinking better. Don’t use it as a substitute for thinking.
Technology doesn’t create business value. Better decisions do.
How do you spot AI-generated content in your feed, and where do you draw the line in your own workflow?
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