The Playbook
Ask who checks the machine. When a service, your bank, your council, an insurer, tells you a decision was AI-assisted, ask which human reviewed it and whether they could have overturned it. The answer shows you whether the safeguard is real or just on paper.
If you manage people, cost the checker. The people keeping AI honest need time, skill and the standing to say no. Cutting the junior roles that grow those people saves money now and removes the check later. Budget for the oversight, not only the tool.
Watch the way into your own trade. If the entry-level work in your field is being automated, notice whether anyone is still being brought in to learn it. That work is how the experts who will one day check the machine are made.
Standalone morning close (recommended over folding into the note). Three reader-actionable moves drawn only from this edition (Thread/Systems oversight; Economy apprenticeship). Compliance-clean: general info not advice, process not position, no products, no buy/sell. Standing disclaimer sits under it on the front end.