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AI Decision Making

A 50-minute brief for managers and senior ICs — using AI as a decision input without quietly handing over the decision.

50 min·7 chapters·Manager · Director·Free

Last updated: 2026-05-19

What you'll learn

By the end of this course you'll be able to:

How to treat AI as a decision input — not a decision maker
The cognitive offloading risk that gets worse the better the model gets
When to override AI confidently — and how to know you’re right to do so
The 80/20 verification rule for AI-augmented decisions
Building team-level decision norms that survive turnover
Scenario planning with AI without losing your own judgment

Who this is for

Managers, directors, and senior individual contributors who already use AI in their decision workflow and want a disciplined approach to the cognitive risks. Especially valuable for leaders in GCC, India, and Africa where AI-augmented decisions land in contexts the model was rarely trained on.

Curriculum

7 chapters · 2 hands-on exercises · capstone challenge

Each chapter ends with the learning objectives ticked off. Quizzes are auto-graded with feedback; exercises are open-ended and produce artifacts you can take to your team.

1. AI as decision input vs. decision maker

7 min

Distinguish AI-as-input from AI-as-decider in your own workflow
Identify three decisions that should never be fully delegated to AI

2. The cognitive offloading risk

7 minQUIZ

Recognize the cognitive offloading pattern in yourself and your team
Apply two countermeasures from decision-science research

3. When to override AI confidently

7 minEXERCISE

Identify three signals that your domain judgment beats the model
Avoid the "the model said so" deference trap in regional contexts

4. The 80/20 verification rule

7 minQUIZ

Apply the 80/20 rule to verify the right 20% of AI-augmented decisions
Spot the decisions that need 100% verification, not 20%

5. Building team-level decision norms

7 min

Design team norms that survive AI tool churn and turnover
Avoid the "everyone uses AI differently" decision-quality drift

6. Scenario planning with AI

8 minEXERCISE

Use AI to expand scenario coverage without anchoring on it
Avoid the false-confidence trap of model-generated scenarios

Capstone: Capstone: Your AI-augmented decision charter

7 min

Draft a 1-page AI-augmented decision charter for your team
Define the decisions AI will inform — and the ones it won’t touch

Capstone deliverable: Every learner who completes this course produces «Your 1-Page AI Decision Charter» — a tangible artifact you take back to your organization.

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