Some AI workshops show you how to produce things like cleaner emails or faster summaries. In this one, participants will use AI for an unexpected job: helping you spot the small, repetitive tasks you do so automatically you’ve stopped noticing them and then build a fix for each one. The surprise is that many don’t need AI at all; a scheduled reminder or a simple rule often does the job better and is safer.
In this hands-on session, “Spotting and Automating the Work that Eats Your Week” with Rachel Bastian at 2 p.m. Friday, July 17 in 261 Rhatigan Student Center, Olive Room, you’ll audit your own work, look at what’s worth automating and leave the workshop having put at least one fix in place (a rule, a template or an automation), plus a way to tell whether it actually saved you time.
Participants will need a computer and Copilot (ChatGPT or Claude are welcomed if preferred). Additionally, some actions will be demonstrated in Microsoft 365 apps, so participants will need to sign with their WSU credentials to try it themselves.
Sponsored by Responsible AI@ICT (wichita.edu/rai) and the Office of Instructional Resources (wichita.edu/oir). Join the team for the rAI after party at 4 p.m. at Social Tap Drinkery in Braeburn Square.