Why Everyone Should Want AI to Automate Decision Making (But Not Make Decisions for You)

Someone asked: "If you could have AI automate one thing for your business right now, and actually do the work WITHOUT needing to prompt it every time... what would it be?" This question reveals a crucial misconception about AI and decision making.

The answer everyone should be giving is critical decision making. We can only make so many major decisions in a day, because each time we do we expend energy and spike cortisol. But there's a misconception around using AI for decision making that needs clarification.

Here's the key distinction: AI shouldn't make the decision for you, it should streamline the decision making process instead. Considering you're an expert in a niche, every time you make a decision you are utilizing active recall upon your decision making framework.

The breakthrough insight: You can delegate this expensive mental resource to AI, to recall your framework for you. As an expert, you've developed unconscious frameworks through experience. AI can help you access and apply these frameworks more efficiently without the mental drain.

The critical boundary: Frameworks are unconscious activity, Techniques are conscious activity. Despite frameworks being unconscious, we're still using our brain - so let's delegate it. But techniques - your ability to make proper assumptions and predictions - can never be outsourced or automated.

The conclusion: Your intuitive intelligence is not something AI can replace, because they don't have the human touch on lived experiences and expertise. Yes AI has data - but they can't foresee solutions like you can. Use AI to recall your frameworks, keep human judgment for strategic decisions.

Hope you found this valuable! :)

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