Per Clingweld: How to avoid 'workslop' when working with AI
7 okt. 2025
06:00
AI-generated reports that look sleek but just create extra work – that’s workslop.
But there are ways to avoid it – and to build a work culture where AI actually adds value, writes Per Clingweld, Change Agent at AI Sweden – the country's national centre for applied artificial intelligence.
"Workslop isn’t just an AI problem," writes Clingweld. "It’s a human one."
But there are ways to avoid it – and to build a work culture where AI actually adds value, writes Per Clingweld, Change Agent at AI Sweden – the country's national centre for applied artificial intelligence.
"Workslop isn’t just an AI problem," writes Clingweld. "It’s a human one."
I’ll admit something embarrassing. Since joining AI Sweden in April, I’ve been helping organisations with AI transformation every day. Yet I, too, have produced "workslop."
Never heard of the term? Coined by Harvard Business Review, it means AI-generated work that looks professional but is the opposite – polished output that dumps the real work on the reader.