What to never hand off
For Professionals delegating daily work to AI who need a clear, defensible line: what AI drafts, what needs their judgment and sign-off, and what never goes to it. · 15 days · Concepts
The days
- 1Meet the intern with no stakesBy the end you can explain why AI can perform work without owning its consequences and classify one task by who remains accountable.
- 2Separate the draft from the decisionBy the end you can mark where an AI-produced draft ends and a human decision begins in a workplace task.
- 3Keep the facts you sign forBy the end you can identify factual claims inside AI-assisted work and state what your sign-off promises about them.
- 4Keep the judgment callsBy the end you can distinguish a useful AI comparison from a judgment call that requires human context, values, and authority.
- 5Keep the relationshipsBy the end you can identify relationship-bearing communication and choose an AI role that preserves human presence and trust.
- 6Keep the confidentialBy the end you can classify an AI task separately from its required material and set a delegation boundary that changes when the inputs change.
- 7Watch the stakes, not the taskBy the end you can classify the same task differently by consequence, reversibility, reach, and vulnerability.
- 8Mind the compliance linesBy the end you can recognize legal, financial, health, safety, privacy, and compliance claims that require an authorized or qualified human owner.
- 9Spot automation creepBy the end you can identify when one-off AI assistance has become an automated decision or communication channel without adequate review.
- 10Stay the author of your thinkingBy the end you can use AI for expression and challenge without outsourcing the initial reasoning your judgment depends on.
- 11Design the human checkpointBy the end you can place a named, meaningful human checkpoint at the moment an AI-assisted workflow becomes consequential.
- 12Write the escalation rulesBy the end you can write escalation triggers based on severity, uncertainty, and novelty and route each trigger to a named owner.
- 13Own the "AI was wrong" dayBy the end you can respond to a shipped AI-assisted mistake by owning the impact, correcting it, and strengthening the workflow without hiding behind the tool.
- 14Draw your own red linesBy the end you can assemble a defensible Hand-off Charter that classifies tasks and specifies conditions, owners, checkpoints, and escalation routes.
- 15Decide a week of real workBy the end you can classify a real week of tasks with your Hand-off Charter and defend two decisions using evidence, stakes, and ownership.