Did you grow up with that rule for sharing a treat? I did, and I used it with my children, too. It seems to be the quickest way to incentivize good-faith efforts in children, and likely in many adults, also.
In the intersection of AI with Proposal Land, I suggest another rule: One does; one checks. In this case:
- The first “one” is an AI assistant of some sort tasked with creating draft responses based on previous proposals and/or on other inputs and constraints provided to it.
- The second “one” is a person knowledgeable in the task of responding to RFPs and in the services or goods being offered in the proposal.
There’s a great piece in The Hub today that speaks for itself, but here’s a teaser.
We are entering the era of digital interns. Like human interns, they are eager, fast, and occasionally completely wrong.
Your job as a leader isn’t to stop them from working.
It’s to ensure a human officer reviews their work before they sign the company name on the dotted line.