The AI Mirror
Built on the Big Five

AI is a
personality amplifier.

AI amplifies whatever you already are. Your strengths get louder, and so do the risks hiding inside them. The faster you get work out the door, the faster you get the wrong stuff out there. This is a three-minute look in the mirror.

Take the test

Free · 15 questions · about 3 minutes · Privacy

See what you'll learn

How it works - and how honest it is

The mirror is built on the Big Five - the personality model psychologists actually use, with decades of peer-reviewed research behind it. The fifteen questions are a recognised short version of the real thing. So far, so scientific.

What happens next is where I come in. I've taken those five traits and mapped them onto the benefits and risks I keep watching people run into with AI, then sorted everyone into four types based on the two traits that move the needle most. Some of that mapping has research behind it. A good chunk of it is me joining dots nobody's joined before. I think the logic holds - but you don't have to take my word for it, because I'll show you the working.

So treat this as a provocation, not a verdict. If your result feels wrong, that's worth knowing - tell me. And if it feels right, especially the bit you'd rather it didn't... that's rather the point.

What you'll get

Four ways people work with AI.

You'll land in one of four. Each one works with AI in its own way, and in each the blind spot is just the strength casting a shadow.

01

The Sprinter

Turns ideas into reality fast - and gets the mistakes out just as fast.

02

The Pragmatist

Uses AI for what works, ignores the hype - and misses what it's quietly become capable of.

03

The Architect

Builds powerful systems with AI - then keeps building long after it's done.

04

The Sceptic

Catches what everyone else lets slip out by mistake - and risks never starting at all.