Learn from real work
See how people in other fields actually use AI: what works, what doesn't, beyond the hype.
Expert interviews
AI: What Has Changed?
We ask experts who inspire us, from all kinds of fields. Each article takes a different question: how AI is changing their work and the way they think, what they trust, and how to keep it efficient.
- 1Answer the questionsFive to ten questions, depending on the topic. Skip whatever you like.
- 2See the draft firstYour parts are highlighted. Nothing goes live without your OK.
- 3It goes liveEach article comes out once its experts are in.
- 4Read it togetherWe send you the article the day it's out.
Schedule
The AI at Work Schedule
Want a topic of your own? Pick one in Topics.
What we write about
Topics
We're interested in all kinds of work, and in the bigger questions AI raises: how we think, what we trust, and how to use it efficiently. Below are the ideas we've collected so far. The best topics come from the people who join, so tell us what's missing.
Find your topic
What's closest to your work?
These are ideas, and most of them are still taking shape. The ones already on the schedule come first, so you can join those today.
What's next
Shift Lab
We're exploring different formats and still thinking them through, so nothing here has a date yet. Join the ones you'd come to, or suggest your own. The most-wanted goes first.
Shift Community
Curious people, learning together.
We're starting a community for people who want to talk about AI: the questions that matter, and the future we'd like it to have.
It isn't open yet, and we're still working out what it should be. That's exactly why your view matters right now: tell us what you'd want from it.
Who we're looking for
People who want to talk and learn about AI
Any field, any country, any level of experience with AI.
- Experts in any fieldDesigners, engineers, journalists, teachers, doctors, farmers: professionals who know their work well and want to share how AI is changing it, what works and what doesn't.
- Curious peopleReaders of the articles, students, people changing career: you don't need to work in tech. Read along, ask questions, or share your own experience.
- Co-creatorsPeople who'd like to write articles with us, host a call, or help shape the community.
What it gives you
Why join
AI is new, and all of us are forming habits around it right now. Here's what we want the community to give the people in it.
Meet people beyond your field
Talk with experts and curious people from different jobs and countries.
Be seen for what you know
Experts can appear in our articles with their name and a link to their work, if they agree to it.
Shape what comes next
Suggest topics, co-write articles, and help choose which calls and meetups we run.
What would you like to see in a community like this?
About Shift
A place to talk openly about AI.
13experts have shared their answers
9articles planned
22topics waiting for three people each
Why we do it
We think talking to people really matters.
We're a designer and a developer. We work with AI every day, and we make a tool for teams to use it together, so this is close to our own work.
We share what we learn as we go, on our blog and social feeds. And we're curious how other people are doing it: what's changed for them, what they trust, what they've worked out. So we ask, and we publish the answers. We're starting a community around it too.
Thank you for sharing.
Who it's for
Both Sides of the Conversation
For readers
See what work with AI looks like today
Across many different jobs, in people's own words, side by side.
For the people we interview
Share your experience, and be heard properly
Your words are handled with care, you can see everything before it goes live, and you meet others who think about the same things.
What we're curious about
The Questions We Keep Coming Back To
Two of them are already on the schedule: fact-checking, and AI and the planet.
- Work and the job market.Tools and habits change month by month, roles shift, and new ones appear. We want to see how people keep up, and which skills help most right now.
- What people really feel.People feel a lot about these changes, from excitement to real anxiety, and there aren't many places to talk about it openly.
- The planet.We build an AI product ourselves, so we want to know more about what AI costs in energy, money and the environment, and how to use it more efficiently. We follow the research closely, try what we learn in our own work, and share it openly.
- Fact-checking.How do we know what's true when more and more of what we read is written or summarised by AI? How facts get checked today, and the best practices for checking them well, matter a lot to us.
- How we think.If AI does more of our thinking, what happens to our own skills? We want to learn the best practices for using it without losing the habit of thinking things through, and share them with others.
Who's behind it
Hi, we're Katja and Ilia.
AI changed our own work a lot: some of it excited us, and some of it worried us. We'd rather talk about both.
We're looking for co-hosts for the live calls and co-authors for the articles. If that sounds like you, drop us a line.
ConnectQuestions
FAQ
The short answers. For anything else, .
How much time does it take?
Five to ten questions, depending on the topic, and usually about 20 minutes. In writing or on a call, whichever you prefer. Skip anything you don't feel like answering.
Will I see the text before it's published?
Whichever you prefer. We can send you the whole draft with your parts highlighted before it goes live, or just send you the link once the article is out.
When does a topic start?
Most articles are general parts of AI at Work, across fields. A themed topic starts once three people join: we prepare the questions, send them to everyone who joined, and put the article on the schedule. An article without a date comes out as soon as its experts are in.
How many people are in one part?
Three to six. Six is the most.
When will my part come out?
We fill each part in the order answers come in. A part has up to six people, so the first six to send their answers are in the next part, and everyone else is in the one after. The sooner you answer, the sooner you're published.
Can I stay anonymous?
Sure. We can describe your work in general terms and leave out your name, company and photo.
Is this free, and how do you make money?
Shift is free, and it will stay free: the articles, taking part, and the community. Mantle Chat, our product for teams, has a free plan that we try to keep genuinely useful, and paid plans for teams that need more.
Who is behind this?
We are: Katja Danilina and Ilia Barchugov, the co-founders of Mantle Chat. There's more about us and why we do this on the About Us page.