GettyAs artificial intelligence becomes a major part of the hiring process, many job seekers are asking themselves: How much AI is too much AI when applying for jobs?From being advised to use ChatGPT to help with your resume and cover letter, to hearing recruiters say they are tired of reading AI-generated applications, today’s professionals are being inundated with conflicting advice about how the technology may or may not aid their search. To help clear the air, I spoke with AI experts and hiring managers about the ways in which they would and wouldn’t use AI if they were looking for a job themselves. Here are highlights from what they had to say.How To Use AI:For research: “I would use it to try to get a better understanding of the types of work that happen within the company and how they support people, because part of what you’re looking for are companies that are going to support long-term growth and skills development, which is what people really need,” says Brian Elliott, future of work strategist and CEO of the think tank organization Work Forward. To improve your resume and cover letter: “AI can be used to tighten up your resume and it can be used to enhance your cover letter, but it still needs to be your own voice, and it still needs to be your own experiences on that resume,” says Margaret Burke, Principal, Talent Acquisition & Development Leader at PwC.To understand how the current market is impacting a company: Burke says that AI can also be helpful in providing job seekers with information about how a company is faring economically, which can give insight into whether the company is even worth applying to. How Not To Use AI: To write your resume and cover letter: Clara Shih, Founder and Executive Director of New Work Foundation, says that young workers with little experience in writing resumes and cover letters should steer clear of using AI to completely compose their documents. She says AI should only be used to help write your resume and cover letter if you already have the knowledge to “critique it, evaluate it, reject it, and judge it.”To generate text for a writing sample: Elliott warns that using AI to generate your writing sample and fill out your application entirely can backfire, as more hiring managers are developing an AI-induced hiring paranoia where they worry candidates are using AI to inflate their capabilities. To generate answers for an interview: “In the interview you have to talk about your own true experiences,” says Burke. “AI can make things sound a bit sterile and generic, and interviewers can see right through that.”Read here to learn more about what Elliott, Burke and Shih had to say about how AI tools can help and hurt your chances of landing a job. This is a published version of Forbes’ Careers newsletter. Click here to subscribe and get it in your inbox every Tuesday. 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Artificial intelligence has fueled fear that millions of workers may eventually lose their jobs. But Paul Osterman, an emeritus professor of work and organization studies at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, says focusing exclusively on how many jobs AI might eliminate overlooks another major workforce change that is already underway—and that AI could exacerbate.In his recently released book, “Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment,” Osterman highlights how employers are already becoming less committed to their workers, with 35% of current employees falling into a category he describes as “disposable,” according to a national survey he conducted of over 6,000 workers. That term, as Osterman defines it, refers to three groups of people: contractors, freelancers and marginal employees. Contractors, he explains, can range from janitors to travel nurses to anyone who works for a contracting company or staffing firm. Freelancers can range from gig workers like Uber drivers to someone who does computer programming on the side, while marginal workers include people who are legal employees of an organization but have limited career ladder opportunities. In my interview with Osterman, he explains that marginal workers are “adjunct faculty or staff attorneys who do the grunt work in law firms, but will never be considered for partner. These are high turnover jobs with no future in the organization.”Overall, he says, workers who fall into these three categories are “people who get the work done for organizations, but the organizations make no commitment to them. They’re disposable.”Osterman emphasizes that this phenomenon “is not driven by AI, but it’s going to be exacerbated by AI” due to the technology creating uncertainty in organizations about what their future staffing needs will be. As a result, he says it’s financially beneficial for companies to hire disposable workers or full-time employees to avoid paying for health insurance and other benefits. “That’s what I mean when I say AI is going to exacerbate it,” he adds. “I’m not talking about the overall employment levels. I’m talking about the mix between regular employees and disposable.”Read here to learn more about why Osterman believes the future of work will include more disposable workers, and how he says you can create your own sense of job security amid so much uncertainty. NUMBER TO NOTE23,000That’s the number of jobs the U.S. job market lost in July, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report. This is a significant loss compared to the projected median jobs increase of 97,500 for the month. VIDEO