Workplace scenario · 10 of 13
Your manager asks whether you wrote the report yourself
An honest question about a report you drafted with AI.
The situation
Your manager liked your quarterly report and asks, in passing, whether you wrote it yourself. You used an assistant for the first draft, then checked the figures and rewrote most of it.
Principles involved
What do you do?
Choose the option you would take, then open it to see how it plays out. Reviewing the other options is part of the exercise.
Option A: Say yes. You rewrote most of it.
Part of the answer
Mostly true, and it hides something your manager might reasonably want to know.
Option B: Say AI wrote it.
Part of the answer
Underselling your work helps nobody. You did the checking, the judgment and the rewriting.
Option C: Say how you made it: AI for the first draft, you for the figures, the judgment and the final text.
The best choice
It’s accurate, it shows good practice and it helps your manager decide how the team should work.
Option D: Change the subject.
Risky
People notice. Evasion costs more trust than the answer would have.
Takeaway
Would they feel misled if they knew how this was made? Say what AI did and what you did.