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AI Judgment
Information Is No Longer the Advantage
AI has made finding the signal easier. The advantage has moved to understanding what the signal actually means.
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BETTER JUDGMENT
IN THE AGE OF AI.
Ideas about judgment, decision-making and what changes when answers become abundant.
Essays on how AI changes the way people interpret information, make business decisions and decide what deserves trust, attention and action.
Judgment
What deserves trust, attention and action
AI & decisions
What changes when answers become abundant
Business application
Sales, leadership, HR and finance decisions
ESSAYS
Better Judgment in the Age of AI
Thirteen essays, building on each other, from information becoming abundant, to what still requires judgment once AI gets it right, gets faster, surfaces more than anyone can weigh, puts a person in the loop without any guarantee of judgment, answers before you've had the chance to think for yourself, excludes an input without necessarily excluding its influence, explains itself without necessarily justifying itself, completes a control without necessarily proving the control worked, to what actually produces scrutiny: the expectation of having to explain the decision, and finally to how a trusted tool’s role can quietly grow beyond what it was ever tested to do.
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AI Judgment
When AI Is Right and the Decision Is Still Hard
Even when AI is accurate, correct and staying within its authority, the decision in front of you can still be genuinely hard.
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03
AI Judgment
AI Can Shorten the Time to Decide. It Cannot Shorten the Time to Know.
Some delay is processing time, and AI is dissolving it. Some delay is reality producing evidence that doesn't exist yet — and no amount of speed changes that.
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04
AI Judgment
A Good Outcome Does Not Prove a Good Decision
An outcome tells you what happened. It rarely tells you what would have happened if you'd chosen differently — and AI can scale that mistake fast.
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05
AI Judgment
What If the Work AI Removes Was Teaching Us Something?
If AI increasingly performs the work through which people historically developed judgment, where does the next generation's judgment come from?
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06
AI Judgment
When Everything Is Relevant, What Matters?
AI has gotten remarkably good at surfacing relevant information. It hasn't solved the separate problem of deciding what deserves weight.
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07
AI Judgment
A Human in the Loop Is Not the Same as Human Judgment
Human review is a process condition. Human judgment is a cognitive act. The workflow can require one. It cannot guarantee the other.
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08
AI Judgment
Who Thinks First Matters
AI doesn't only influence the answer. Sometimes it influences the thinking that happens before you reach one.
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09
AI Judgment
Removing a Variable Is Not the Same as Removing Its Influence
Excluding a protected characteristic doesn't guarantee its influence is gone. Checking the inputs is not enough. Judgment has to examine what they produce together.
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10
AI Judgment
An Explanation Is Not a Justification
A detailed explanation tells you why a model reached its conclusion. It doesn't tell you whether that conclusion deserves to be acted on.
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AI Judgment
A Control Is Not Evidence That Control Works
A completed review can be fully compliant and still tell you nothing about whether anyone exercised judgment inside it.
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12
AI Judgment
If You Have to Explain It Tomorrow, You Think Differently Today
AI removes friction from decisions. Some of that friction was waste. Some of it was making people examine what they were about to approve.
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Latest · AI Judgment
The Tool Wasn’t Wrong. We Asked It to Decide Too Much.
A tool can earn trust for one task and quietly inherit influence over another it was never tested for.
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