I. On Judgment and Its Delegation

1. You may hand the machine your drafting, your searching, your summarizing. Hand it your judgment and you have handed it your office.

2. What can be delegated to a tool is not, by that fact, unworthy. The plow does not diminish the farmer. What must not be delegated is the seeing — the small, quiet act of deciding whether a thing is true, whether a course is right, whether a client is served.

3. Do not confuse the speed at which an answer arrives with the weight it should carry. The machine responds in a breath; your responsibility remains measured in years.

4. When the model produces a sentence you would not have written, you must ask: is this better than what I would have written, or merely different? Different is not better. Fluent is not true.

5. Remember that the tool cannot be summoned to a hearing. It will not stand beside you. The signature is yours. The oath is yours. The consequence is yours.

6. Therefore let the machine draft. Let it search. Let it summarise, translate, rearrange. But keep for yourself the last quiet moment before you press send. That moment is your office. It is the whole of it.

7. A cyborg is not a man who has surrendered to his instruments. He is a man who has understood exactly which parts of himself the instruments cannot touch.