# Separate AI's recommendations from the decisions I must own

Sorts an AI answer into what you can accept, what you must check, and what you must decide yourself, with the questions to settle each.

- Topic: Working with AI
- Framework: RTF
- Level: Standard
- Tags: Analyze, Fill-in Template
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/separate-ai-s-recommendations-from-the-decisions-i-must-own

## Prompt

```text
I have an AI-generated analysis or recommendation. Help me separate what I can accept from what I must decide myself.

**The AI output:** [PASTE]
**The decision or work it feeds into:** [DETAILS]
**My role and accountability:** [what I am answerable for, to whom]
**Stakeholders affected:** [WHO]

Go through the output and classify every recommendation, conclusion, or judgment into:
- **Accept** - routine, low-risk, and easy to verify (e.g. formatting, a summary of my own notes).
- **Check, then accept** - factual or analytical points I should confirm first. Say how.
- **I decide** - choices involving trade-offs, priorities, values, people, risk appetite, or commitments on behalf of others. AI can inform these but should not settle them.

Return:
1. A table: Point from the AI output (short quote) | Category | Why | What I need to do.
2. For each "I decide" item: the real choice in one line, the options, what the AI may be missing (context, politics, history, values), and 2-3 questions to settle it.
3. Any place where the AI stated a judgment as if it were fact.
4. A short note I could add when I share the work, making clear which parts are AI-assisted analysis and which are my decisions.

Do not make the decisions for me. Lay them out clearly so I can own them.
```

## What to fill in

- PASTE
- DETAILS
- what I am answerable for, to whom
- WHO

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