Has artificial intelligence come to your workplace yet? Increasingly, the answer to that question will be yes. Our own WSJ readers are already using AI at work, from the educator creating podcasts of her lectures for her students to the management consultant quickly getting up to speed on topics for his clients.

But AI isn’t always trustworthy. Chatbots are notorious for hallucinations—those instances when they say something incorrect with complete confidence. They still have trouble saying “I don’t know.” And even when AI offers a reasonable solution, human workers might still know the better path.

So what happens when your boss trusts the bot instead of you?

Columnist Callum Borchers recently interviewed Jefferson Fisher, a Texas trial lawyer who has amassed millions of online followers with his video tips for handling tense situations. Fisher’s suggestion is to “come with evidence.” In other words, explain what you believe and why. “Say, ‘I’m confident this is a better route for us because I’ve been here and seen this,’” Fisher said.

The author of “The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More” has more advice on navigating the modern—and future—workplace. Read on for his tips on how to handle coworker flare-ups in our progressively digital professional worlds, as well as his prediction for the main source of work conflict in the next five years.

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More on the changes AI is bringing to work:

• How the AI Talent Race Is Reshaping the Tech Job Market (Read)
• AI-Native Companies Are Growing Fast and Doing Things Differently (Read)
• How WSJ Readers Use AI at Work (Read)

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Last week, we reported on China’s private-sector space industry. Readers shared their thoughts on the role that companies should play in the exploration and development of space:

• “Innovation moves faster when the government and private sector work together. Space exploration should be open to the entire humanity and the fastest way to make that happen is to have the resources of the government support the ingenuity and innovation that drives the corporate sector.”—Pawan Mehra, California
• “As long as there is robust government oversight so that the owner(s) of private companies cannot compromise national security, they should be allowed to have at it. We cannot let private citizens have the power to affect our foreign policy, such as allowing Elon Musk to decide if he will allow Ukraine to use Starlink for their communications.”—Henry Fink, Minnesota 
• “I think it’s less what role they’ll play, and more about what constraints governments should place on it. Private/company-sponsored space flight will expand rapidly in the next five years, and we’ll need to manage and regulate it like we do plane travel today, or there will be significant consequences.”—Ryan Turner, Virginia

(Responses have been condensed and edited.)

• One botanist is scouring remote corners of the earth for a forgotten bean that could save coffee from extinction. (Smithsonian Magazine)
• The latest treatment for wealthy people worried about their health? Cleansing the blood of microplastics. (Wired)
• Brain-computer interfaces have taken some recent strides toward practical applications. (MIT Technology Review)

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