Map Your Own Work Tasks to the AI Reliability Spectrum | AI for the Rest of Us | Sit Stay AI

Setup

You're going to build your personal AI Task Map — a classification of 5+ recurring work tasks placed on the reliability spectrum. This is the deliverable for Module 2, and it's something you'll actually use: a quick-reference guide to which of your tasks are good AI candidates.

Instructions

List 5 or more recurring work tasks — things you do at least weekly. Be specific: "respond to customer inquiry emails" not "communications." Think about what's actually on your calendar and to-do list.

For each task, answer the three questions:
What type of output do I need?
How would I verify the result?
What happens if it's wrong?

Place each task in a zone (High, Moderate, Low, Not Suitable).

Name the primary failure mode — what would go wrong if you used AI for this task without careful evaluation? (Hallucinated facts? Wrong tone? Missing context? Wrong format?)

Identify the verification action — what specifically would you check after getting the AI output?

Template

#	Task	Zone	Output Type	Verification Method	Failure Mode	Verification Action
1	Draft weekly status email to client	High	Structured text from my notes	Compare to my actual project notes	Might miss a task I completed but didn't note	Check against my task tracker before sending
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Quality Check

Before moving on, verify:

[ ] Do I have at least 5 tasks listed?
[ ] Is each task specific (not a vague category like "writing")?
[ ] Does every task have all 6 fields filled in?
[ ] Do I have tasks in at least 2 different zones? (If everything is Green, you may be underestimating the risks. If everything is Red, you may be overestimating them.)
[ ] Would a colleague in my role recognize these as real recurring tasks?

How confident are you?

Rate your confidence (1 = not at all, 5 = very confident):

"I can place a work task on the reliability spectrum with rationale": 1 2 3 4 5
"I can name the primary failure mode for a given task": 1 2 3 4 5
"I can identify what I'd need to verify in the AI output": 1 2 3 4 5

If any skill is below 3, re-read Lesson 2.2 (the spectrum framework) before taking the short check.

Optional: Share Your Task Map

If you work with colleagues who also use AI (or are thinking about it), share your Task Map with one of them and ask: "Does this match how you think about AI risk for our shared work?" You might discover tasks you classified differently — that's a valuable conversation, not a sign that one of you is wrong.

Save Point

Save your AI Task Map. You'll reference it in Module 3 when you choose a task to prompt, and in the capstone when you select your "Real Tuesday" task.

Bridge

You now have a personal framework for AI task suitability. Let's test how well you've internalized it with a quick check — 5 tasks, 5 minutes.