What should I still be able to do if an AI tool or phone is unavailable?
It's easy to miss what a phone or an AI tool is carrying for you until it's gone. Pick one essential activity and find out what gets hard without the service. The closing conversation compared a phone to something people depend on physically. That was an opinion about dependence and carried no medical claim.
List the information, contacts or instructions you can only reach through a device or service. Then ask what a colleague could do during an outage without borrowing your personal login.
Keep an approved backup for what matters: a short operating guide, an accessible contact route or a current copy of a critical procedure. Follow your security rules, and don't build an uncontrolled archive on the side.
Practice one interruption and see whether the team can find the latest decision and tell which work finished before the service stopped. Check that it can carry on without repeating an external action.
Update the backup when the process changes. You don't have to memorize every detail your tools can retrieve. You do need a workable way to carry on when access to them is interrupted.
What to try this week
Pick the one task your team would struggle to finish with the AI tool switched off. Write a one-page guide for it that a colleague could follow without your login.