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Short diagnostic hints for the two Practice on your own problems in this chapter. Attempt each problem before opening the hint. Complete answers appear in Appendix G of The Defensible Decision: Practice Workbook.
Problem 1 — the disclosure dilemma
Restated: A senior colleague argues against attaching disclosure footnotes to AI-directed artifacts because «it makes our team look less capable than the ones next door who don’t disclose.» Write the one-paragraph counter-argument, grounded in what the disclosure standard is for (not a self-flattering claim, an evidence trail for the audience’s ability to challenge the artifact).
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Diagnostic cue. State the disclosure a decision-maker needs before weighing whether the artifact can ship.
Complete answers appear in Appendix G of The Defensible Decision: Practice Workbook.
Problem 2 — the role mismatch
Restated: You inherit a dashboard from a colleague who left. It carries an AI-directed disclosure and a recommendation verification level. On review, its actual role in the business turned out to be decision artifact — six months of quarterly forecasts have been anchored to its numbers. Name the escalation move (add the missing decision-artifact-grade verification), the disclosure amendment (name the role escalation in the footnote), and the one message you would send to the manager who inherited the workflow.
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Diagnostic cue. Match review authority to the artifact's materiality, affected audience, and decision risk.
Complete answers appear in Appendix G of The Defensible Decision: Practice Workbook.
Related on this site
- Chapter 14 companion page — the responsible-AI framework, verification tiers, and disclosure standards.
- Resources — downloadable disclosure templates and verification-tier checklists.
- All chapter companion pages.
- Feedback — share corrections and improvement opportunities across all chapters.
About the three-tier Practice format
Each chapter of the book closes with a three-tier Practice block adapted from Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic's course-adoption pattern in Storytelling with Data: Let's Practice!: Practice with us (one worked problem with full solution in the book), Practice on your own (open problems with complete answers in Appendix G of the Practice Workbook; this page offers short diagnostic hints), and Practice at work (an open-ended prompt to apply the chapter's move to a live artifact). This page hosts the middle tier.