According to Google-recommended practices, when should generative AI be used to augment your strategic thought...

Generative AI is particularly useful as a thought partner for work involving exploration, synthesis, creativity, and strategic decision-making. It can rapidly generate alternatives, summarize complex information, challenge assumptions, identify patterns, and help users examine a problem from multiple perspectives. These capabilities can augment human analysis and content creation, while final judgment remains with the responsible person. Highly sensitive medical or legal decisions require qualified professional oversight and should not be delegated to a model. Financial reporting and accounting demand deterministic accuracy and verification because generative models can hallucinate or calculate incorrectly. Repetitive, rule-based work may be automated, but that is operational automation rather than augmentation of strategic thinking. Option D therefore best reflects the recommended use of generative AI to expand and strengthen human thought processes.