# Identify the decisions in a task I should not hand to AI

Pinpoints the decisions, ambiguities, and exceptions in a task that a person must own, and why AI should not decide them.

- Topic: Working with AI
- Framework: RTF
- Level: Advanced
- Tags: Write, Analyze, Fill-in Template
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/identify-the-decisions-in-a-task-i-should-not-hand-to-ai

## Prompt

```text
Help me find where human judgment matters most in a task I want to use AI for.

**The task or workflow:** [DESCRIBE IT, or PASTE the steps]
**Who is affected by the outcome:** [customers, employees, partners, the public]
**What is at stake:** [money, reputation, legal exposure, relationships, safety]
**How I plan to use AI:** [e.g. drafting, analysis, recommendations, sending automatically]

Review every step and flag where a person must stay in charge because of:
- **Consequences** - errors are costly, public, or hard to reverse.
- **Context over information** - the right answer depends on history, relationships, politics, or culture that is not in the data.
- **Ambiguity** - the goal, the facts, or the trade-offs are unclear and need interpretation.
- **Stakeholders** - the decision needs understanding of people's interests, buy-in, or trust.
- **Ethics and fairness** - it affects people's jobs, pay, access, or treatment.
- **Exceptions** - unusual cases that fall outside the normal pattern.
- **Accountability** - someone has to be able to explain and defend the decision.

Return:
1. A table: Step | Judgment needed? (yes / partly / no) | Reason (from the list above) | What AI can still do to help | What the human decides.
2. The decisions I should not delegate to AI at all, ranked by consequence.
3. A list of exception triggers - signals that a case needs a person, written so a team could spot them.
4. A one-paragraph rule of thumb for this task that I can share with my team.

Be concrete to my task. Where a step is a close call, say so and explain both sides.
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## What to fill in

- DESCRIBE IT, or PASTE the steps
- customers, employees, partners, the public
- money, reputation, legal exposure, relationships, safety

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