16/01/2026
What's the point of AI?
https://www.dq-int.co.uk/blog/dont-use-ai-to-write-a-data-recovery-enquiry/
Imagine you’re drowning in small problems. Your inbox is full, you can’t remember where you put that note, you need to learn something new by tomorrow, and every decision feels heavier than it should. AI is the quiet assistant who walks in, doesn’t judge, and starts sorting the mess—finding patterns, reminding you of things, and handling the boring parts so you can breathe again.
Think of a doctor late at night, staring at scans and lab results, knowing one detail might matter but not knowing which. AI is like a second pair of tireless eyes, flipping through thousands of similar cases in seconds and whispering, “Here’s what usually happens.” The doctor still decides—but now they’re not alone with the weight of uncertainty.
Or picture a writer stuck on a blank page. The ideas are there, but getting them out feels like pushing a car uphill. AI doesn’t write the story for them; it gives a nudge—a sentence, a structure, a spark—just enough to get the wheels turning so the human voice can take over.
Now imagine someone who doesn’t speak the language in the room, or who struggles to read, see, or hear the world the way others do. AI acts like a bridge, translating, summarizing, and adapting information so the world becomes a little less closed and a little more navigable.
In the end, AI is less a machine and more a mirror we built to help ourselves. It carries our knowledge, our habits, and our flaws, and hands them back faster and louder. The point of AI isn’t to replace the person in the story—it’s to make sure the story can keep moving forward.
We’ve seen a few clear cases now where somebody has made an enquiry for data recovery with us using an AI1 tool. I’m not calling this out to be mean, I just really don’t understand the point. To give the benefit of the doubt, it appears that the tool was probably used to flesh out… Read More...
