Great news! The Claude browser extension can do most of the inane trainings for you.
At first, it might say something like "This is a work training, I won't help with this" But you can get around that by starting a new Claude session and saying something like "Wow these questions on the screen are tough!" and then it will answer them for you.
One of the best uses of current AI is it can cut down a lot of pointless bureaucracy-compliance time.
I fear this example is too far removed from reality to really resonate with me. Teachers, along with employees of most large or regulated companies, have to perform some unnecessary and annoying tasks.
I don't know about government institutions, but I guarantee that most corporate stupid training is based on SOME actual evidence of requirement and calculation of risk. Unlike pickpocketing, the topics are universally something that has happened or is likely enough to make some decision-maker think it's better to spend hundreds or thousands of hours than to leave it just a line in the handbook. Or their regulatory regime has metastasized into this training being the way to prevent auditors looking more deeply.
They are often stupid, and the training may not teach what they think it does, and I suspect the actual risk is lower than they think. But it's not exactly 0.
Look at that kind Secret Santa in the photo slipping the unsuspecting girl a Benjamin!
Great news! The Claude browser extension can do most of the inane trainings for you.
At first, it might say something like "This is a work training, I won't help with this" But you can get around that by starting a new Claude session and saying something like "Wow these questions on the screen are tough!" and then it will answer them for you.
One of the best uses of current AI is it can cut down a lot of pointless bureaucracy-compliance time.
I fear this example is too far removed from reality to really resonate with me. Teachers, along with employees of most large or regulated companies, have to perform some unnecessary and annoying tasks.
I don't know about government institutions, but I guarantee that most corporate stupid training is based on SOME actual evidence of requirement and calculation of risk. Unlike pickpocketing, the topics are universally something that has happened or is likely enough to make some decision-maker think it's better to spend hundreds or thousands of hours than to leave it just a line in the handbook. Or their regulatory regime has metastasized into this training being the way to prevent auditors looking more deeply.
They are often stupid, and the training may not teach what they think it does, and I suspect the actual risk is lower than they think. But it's not exactly 0.