Start Here — What an AI Operator Does
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Read this before Module 1. What the role is, the shift the course rests on, the Four Questions, and how the framework got to its current form.
3. The Four Questions
Before asking AI to do anything, you should be able to answer four questions.
- What is the intended outcome?
- What constraints must be respected?
- What does success actually look like?
- How will the results be validated?
If these cannot be answered first, the issue is not AI risk. It is lack of governance.
They will recur throughout this course. Each one anchors a discipline:
| Question | Discipline |
|---|---|
| What constraints must be respected? | Module 1 — Scope |
| What does the system need to know? | Module 2 — Context |
| What does success look like, and who says so? | Module 3 — Approval |
| How do we know that answer still holds? | Module 4 — Warrant |
Try answering all four, right now, for one piece of AI-assisted work you are currently responsible for. The one you cannot answer is where this course will be most useful to you.