Decisions
Decision Offloading
Asking AI what you should choose before naming your own criteria.
How it feels
The choice feels less exposed because the model has already arranged the options into a neat answer.
At work
A hiring manager asks AI which candidate to pick before writing the three criteria that actually matter.
Hidden cost
Decisions: the criteria-setting muscle goes quiet.
You may have this if
Before asking AI, can you write the three standards the decision must satisfy?
Try this instead
Hold the decision for one hour. Write criteria, tradeoffs, and one feared consequence before prompting.
Team rule
AI may rank options only after the human owner writes the decision criteria.
Related book concept
Decision circuit and the hard-decision hold.
Evidence notes
Kool et al. (2010) describes avoidance of cognitively demanding decision work.
Decision Offloading names the AI-era version of outsourcing the criteria step.
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