# Naming AI-Use Modes Turns Habit Into Deliberate Strategy ## Claim Teaching learners an explicit vocabulary for how they're using an AI tool turns an unconscious habit into a strategy they can deliberately choose and switch. <!-- atomicity: 1 idea ✓ --> ## Scope & conditions - Holds when the taxonomy is taught and practiced with reflection activities. - Weak as mere labeling without practice — a vocabulary list alone doesn't change behavior on its own. ## Evidence Ammari et al.'s constructs "genre portfolio management" (fluidly switching modes by task) and "relational AI literacy" (managing trust, frustration, confidence, dependence, and control) frame naming the five use-modes as the mechanism that makes deliberate switching possible. ## Links - [[3. Resources/Permanent Notes/AI Literacy Is a Post-Answer Behavior Not a Property of the Answer]] — because evidence-for - [[3. Resources/MOCs/AI & the Future of Knowledge Work MOC]] — because applies-in ## Tests / falsifiers - Teach the five-use taxonomy explicitly to one cohort and not another; measure whether the taught cohort names and switches modes more deliberately (self-report plus observed transcript coding). - A cohort that shows no measurable change in mode-switching behavior after explicit instruction would weaken the claim. ## Maintenance - Last tended: 2026-08-16 - Next review: 2026-11-16 ## Source - [[3. Resources/Literature Notes/ChatGPT and AI Literacy — How Students Learn Through Use]] — the genre portfolio management and relational literacy constructs.