The AI Fluency Framework names four connected competencies: Delegation, Description, Discernment and Diligence. The examples below are AI Boss’s original practical illustrations, not copied course exercises.
Delegation: draw the boundary
A team leader needs a summary of staff suggestions. AI can group ideas from a de-identified list. The leader keeps decisions about which proposals to fund and how to explain the choice. Before starting, write down the input, the task and the decisions AI cannot make.
Try it: choose one recurring task. Split it into “AI may prepare”, “a person must decide” and “do not share”. If a boundary is unclear, resolve it before submitting the work.
Description: make success visible
A language tutor asks AI to help practise polite requests. “Make me fluent” is too broad. A useful brief names the learner’s level, the setting, the desired length and what feedback should cover. For example: create a fictional café exchange, keep the language at beginner level and explain one change that makes the request more polite.
Try it: write a short brief with audience, purpose, approved information, output format and one example of an unacceptable answer. Keep private learner information out.
Discernment: inspect the result
An operations manager receives a proposed rota. It is neat, but neatness does not prove it respects availability, required skills or agreed working arrangements. Check those constraints against the original records. Ask a person familiar with the work to inspect the awkward cases, not only the easy ones.
Try it: list three observable tests before reading the output. Include one for a missing fact or exception. If the model explains why it is right, check that explanation too.
Diligence: remain accountable
A community organiser uses AI to draft an event announcement. Before publication, somebody verifies the venue, accessibility information and permission to use photographs. The organiser records who approved the announcement and how to correct it if plans change.
Try it: name the owner, the approval point, what must be disclosed and the correction route. An automated draft should not quietly become an automated commitment.
Return to the earlier decisions when the task changes. The four Ds work together.
Practise the four Ds
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Source & attribution
Framework: Rick Dakan, Joseph Feller and Anthropic (2025). The linked source is released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. AI Boss links to the original; it does not reproduce the course, its graphics or its exercises. The editorial examples here are independently written. No affiliation or endorsement is implied.
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