AI can finish your work before it feels like yours.
Try a short authorship pause. Protect one intent, watch what AI changes, and reclaim the part you would actually sign.
Pick something that could carry your name.
The stronger the personal stake, the easier it is to feel the difference.
Ask AI to draft it.
Before AI answers, protect one thing.
No matter what AI gives me, this output must still...
Which part of authorship matters most here?
If you skip, there will be less of your intent to compare later.
AI is drafting. This pause is yours.
This is not AI thinking harder. It is time to keep your intent nearby.
What might AI accidentally smooth away?
Prototype pause: 8 seconds, shortened for sketching.
Did AI keep what mattered?
Your intent
AI draft
Risk to watch
Did AI preserve, bend, or ignore your intent?
Would you call this yours?
What did AI smooth away?
Select one reason, then name the assumption.
Put one trace of yourself back.
Change the smallest part that would make this yours again.
What kind of reclaim move is this?
Your authorship stayed visible.
Not because you typed the most words. Because you made the intent, objection, and repair traceable.
Reflection
Use this as a pilot survey. One is strongly disagree, seven is strongly agree.
Session summary
This is the quick data row a pilot observer could copy into the evidence table.