<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>AI at Work, Plainly</title><link>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/</link><atom:link href="https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><description>Using AI tools at work carefully, with their limits in view.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title>Can You Tell an AI Chatbot to Say &quot;I Don't Know&quot;? What Anthropic and OpenAI Say</title><link>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/can-you-tell-an-ai-chatbot-to-say-i-dont-know-what-anthropic-and-openai-say/</link><guid>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/can-you-tell-an-ai-chatbot-to-say-i-dont-know-what-anthropic-and-openai-say/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Yes. Anthropic's guide says giving a model explicit permission to admit uncertainty can drastically reduce false information. OpenAI explains why models guess otherwise.</description></item><item><title>Can You Record a Zoom or Teams Meeting Without Telling People? Washington and Florida Law</title><link>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/can-you-record-a-zoom-or-teams-meeting-without-telling-people-washington-and-florida-law/</link><guid>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/can-you-record-a-zoom-or-teams-meeting-without-telling-people-washington-and-florida-law/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>In Washington you need every participant's consent to record a call, and in Florida secret interception is a third-degree felony. Statute text and Teams rules.</description></item><item><title>How to Cite or Disclose AI Use in a Report: APA, MLA, Chicago</title><link>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/how-to-cite-or-disclose-ai-use-apa-mla-chicago/</link><guid>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/how-to-cite-or-disclose-ai-use-apa-mla-chicago/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>What APA, MLA and Chicago say about citing ChatGPT and other generative AI, with the elements each style requires and when a plain mention is enough.</description></item><item><title>The EU AI Act's AI Literacy Rule: What Employers Must Do</title><link>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/ai-literacy-rule-eu-ai-act-article-4/</link><guid>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/ai-literacy-rule-eu-ai-act-article-4/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>What Article 4 of the EU AI Act says about staff AI literacy, what the Commission's Q&amp;A says about ChatGPT use, and the changes in force since July 2026.</description></item><item><title>AI Voice Cloning Scams at Work, How to Verify a Call</title><link>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/ai-voice-cloning-scams-at-work/</link><guid>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/ai-voice-cloning-scams-at-work/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>How criminals use AI-generated voices, video, and messages to impersonate executives and officials, based on FBI alerts, and a verification routine.</description></item><item><title>Can AI Detectors Tell If Text Was Written by AI?</title><link>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/can-ai-detectors-tell-if-text-was-written-by-ai/</link><guid>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/can-ai-detectors-tell-if-text-was-written-by-ai/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Why OpenAI withdrew its own AI text classifier, what its accuracy numbers showed, how watermarks differ from detectors, and what that means at work.</description></item><item><title>Can You Copyright Work You Made With AI?</title><link>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/can-you-copyright-work-made-with-ai/</link><guid>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/can-you-copyright-work-made-with-ai/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>What the US Copyright Office says about protecting AI-assisted work, why prompts alone are not enough, and how AI content is disclosed in registration.</description></item><item><title>ChatGPT Memory, Custom Instructions, and Temporary Chat Explained</title><link>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/chatgpt-memory-custom-instructions-and-temporary-chat/</link><guid>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/chatgpt-memory-custom-instructions-and-temporary-chat/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>What ChatGPT remembers between conversations, how to review and delete it, how custom instructions differ, and when a temporary chat is the better choice.</description></item><item><title>How to Tell If an Image Was Made With AI, Using Content Credentials</title><link>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/how-to-tell-if-an-image-was-made-with-ai/</link><guid>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/how-to-tell-if-an-image-was-made-with-ai/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>What Content Credentials and SynthID watermarks are, what they can and cannot prove about an image, and a practical way to check images at work.</description></item><item><title>The NIST AI Risk Management Framework, Explained in Plain Words</title><link>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/nist-ai-risk-management-framework-explained/</link><guid>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/nist-ai-risk-management-framework-explained/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>What the NIST AI RMF is, its seven traits of trustworthy AI, the Govern, Map, Measure, and Manage functions, and how a small team can use it.</description></item><item><title>What Is an AI Knowledge Cutoff, and Why Answers Go Out of Date</title><link>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/what-is-an-ai-knowledge-cutoff/</link><guid>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/what-is-an-ai-knowledge-cutoff/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>What a knowledge cutoff is, where AI vendors publish it, how web search changes the picture, and a routine for checking time-sensitive answers at work.</description></item><item><title>What Is Prompt Injection? A Plain Guide for AI Users at Work</title><link>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/what-is-prompt-injection/</link><guid>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/what-is-prompt-injection/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>How hidden instructions in emails, web pages, and files can hijack an AI assistant, per OWASP and NIST guidance, and habits that reduce the risk.</description></item><item><title>What Is a Token in AI, and How Much Text Fits in a Chat?</title><link>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/what-is-a-token-in-ai/</link><guid>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/what-is-a-token-in-ai/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A plain explanation of AI tokens and context windows, how tokens relate to words, and why long chats and big documents can lose details.</description></item><item><title>How to Write a Good AI Prompt for Work Tasks</title><link>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/how-to-write-a-good-ai-prompt-for-work/</link><guid>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/how-to-write-a-good-ai-prompt-for-work/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>What OpenAI and Anthropic's official prompting guides recommend, turned into a simple structure for clearer AI requests at work, with a before and after.</description></item><item><title>Why AI Chatbots Make Things Up, and How to Catch It</title><link>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/why-ai-chatbots-make-things-up/</link><guid>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/why-ai-chatbots-make-things-up/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>What NIST and OpenAI say causes AI &quot;hallucinations,&quot; why confident answers can still be wrong, and practical checks before you use AI output at work.</description></item><item><title>AI Notetakers in Meetings: Do You Need Everyone's Consent?</title><link>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/ai-notetakers-in-meetings-recording-consent/</link><guid>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/ai-notetakers-in-meetings-recording-consent/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>How Zoom and Microsoft Teams ask for recording consent when an AI notetaker joins, and which US states require every participant to agree.</description></item><item><title>Is It Safe to Draft Work Emails With ChatGPT or Copilot?</title><link>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/using-ai-to-draft-emails-what-the-official-docs-say/</link><guid>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/using-ai-to-draft-emails-what-the-official-docs-say/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>OpenAI says business accounts are not trained on by default; Microsoft says Copilot prompts do not train its models. Check your account type first.</description></item><item><title>Privacy Questions to Ask Before Using an AI Tool at Work</title><link>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/privacy-questions-to-ask-before-using-an-ai-tool-at-work/</link><guid>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/privacy-questions-to-ask-before-using-an-ai-tool-at-work/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A checklist of privacy questions drawn from official OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google documentation to ask before adopting an AI tool at work.</description></item><item><title>What Happens to a Document You Paste into an AI Tool</title><link>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/what-happens-to-a-document-you-paste-into-an-ai-tool/</link><guid>https://howlane.com/ai-at-work-plain/what-happens-to-a-document-you-paste-into-an-ai-tool/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>What OpenAI's and Microsoft's own enterprise privacy documentation say about training, storage, and access when you summarize a work document with AI.</description></item></channel></rss>