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When Not to Use AI Decision Frameworks for Avoiding Costly Automation Mistakes AI makes it easy to act. It does not make it easy to decide well. As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in everyday workflows, organizations are automating faster than they are thinking. Tasks are delegated because tools are available. Decisions are accelerated because outputs look convincing. Responsibility diffuses. Judgment erodes. When Not to Use AI is a practical decision book for leaders and professionals who are accountable for outcomes-not just outputs. This is not a book about how AI works. It is a book about how organizations fail when automation is adopted without restraint. Drawing on real-world patterns across management, operations, compliance, healthcare, finance, and policy, this book shows why many costly AI failures are not technical mistakes-but decision mistakes. It explains how speed, scale, fluency, and metrics quietly replace judgment, and how risk emerges between roles, incentives, and assumptions rather than inside models. This book focuses on one essential question: When should AI not be used-even if it technically can be? Inside this book, you'll learn: Why automation pressure is rarely a technical problem-and why treating it as one increases risk How fluency, confidence, and metrics distort trust, accountability, and oversight Why human-in-the-loop designs often fail in practice, even when they look responsible on paper How small errors amplify at scale, erode trust, and create irreversible exposure When judgment-heavy, context-dependent, ethical, or ambiguous tasks should not be automated How to decide whether a task should be automated, assisted, or avoided entirely Each chapter examines a real decision point where AI is commonly misapplied, explains the underlying failure mode, and provides concrete frameworks and checklists that readers can use before deploying automation. Who this book is for: Managers and team leads responsible for delivery and risk Product owners and technical decision-makers evaluating AI adoption Consultants advising organizations on automation and digital transformation Engineers and analysts asked to ""add AI"" to judgment-heavy workflows Who this book is not for: AI evangelists looking for hype or predictions Tool-specific how-to guides or prompt engineering manuals Beginner introductions to machine learning This book does not argue against AI. It argues for using it deliberately. Restraint is a professional skill. Decision quality matters more than automation speed. AI is a tool-not a mandate. Knowing when not to use AI is the difference between efficiency and exposure. This book teaches that skill.

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