Clarkson AI Institute · Workbench · Shop Reels · Reel 02
How Augmented Work Starts in ChatGPT
ChatGPT · 1:00
What it shows: Chat answers questions; Work does jobs — once you connect it to your accounts.
Accurate as of October 2026. Menus, names and features change — read what your screen actually says.
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Most people use ChatGPT as a chatbot: summarize this article, make it shorter. Switching from Chat to Work changes what it can do. Asked to connect to Gmail and the Google apps, it links Gmail, Calendar and Drive. Then it is asked to send an email to the AI Institute that says “hello world” — and the message lands in the Institute’s inbox.
Try it: send “hello world” to ai.institute@clarkson.edu.
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The Human Test → Which step should a person have checked before that email went out? And what did you just give the tool access to?
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