🎮 The Next Input — Issue #135

⚡ The Briefing — 60 sec

• All the important news from the ongoing India AI Summit I got you fam. India isn’t playing on the sidelines. The summit makes one thing clear: AI strategy is now national infrastructure.

• AI “washing” and the quiet job-loss trend Very few people are actually in the room building this stuff. When someone who is says, “here’s what’s coming,” it’s worth listening.

• Major AI rollout sparks backlash after sloppy implementation This is what happens when AI is deployed without discipline. Even large organisations can ship slop. The difference is — they pay for it publicly.

🛠️ The Playbook — The AI Reality Filter

Mission Separate AI signal from hype before making strategic or operational decisions.
Difficulty Advanced
Build time 2–3 hours
ROI Prevents overcommitment, reputational damage, and misallocated capital.

0) Why This Matters

Summits amplify ambition.
Headlines amplify fear.
Enterprises amplify mistakes.

The risk isn’t missing AI.
The risk is believing the wrong narrative about it.

You need a filter before you need a roadmap.

1) Architecture

2) Workflow

1. Extract claims: Strip the article or announcement into discrete assertions.

2. Assess feasibility: Evaluate technical and operational maturity.

3. Scan incentives: Identify commercial, political, or reputational drivers.

4. Ground in evidence: Compare against real-world deployments.

5. Score risk: Rate adoption risk (Low / Medium / High).

6. Decide deliberately: Adopt, pilot, or defer with documented reasoning.

3) Example Prompts

Claim Extraction

Extract all factual claims from this article.
Separate:
- verified facts
- forward-looking statements
- opinion or speculation
Return as a table.

Feasibility Check

For each forward-looking claim:
Assess technical feasibility in:
- 12 months
- 36 months
Provide reasoning.

Incentive Scan

Identify:
- financial incentives
- political incentives
- reputational incentives
Influencing this announcement.
Return structured output.

4) Guardrails

• No adoption based on headline alone.

• Forward-looking claims require feasibility scoring.

• Public deployment requires documented risk assessment.

• If incentives outweigh evidence, pause.

5) Pilot Rollout — 3 hours

1. Select one recent AI announcement.

2. Run claim extraction + feasibility check.

3. Identify incentive drivers.

4. Score adoption risk.

5. Present findings to leadership.

6. Document decision rationale.

6) Metrics

• % of AI initiatives evaluated pre-adoption

• Forecast accuracy vs reality

• Capital allocated vs realised ROI

• Public incident count

• Leadership decision turnaround time

Pro Tip: If everyone is excited, slow down.

🎯 The Arsenal — Tools & Platforms

• Claude 4.6 Sonnet · Feasibility and structured assessment · https://anthropic.com

• GPT-5-mini · Claim extraction and structured parsing · https://openai.com

• Perplexity Pro · Real-world deployment grounding · https://perplexity.ai

• Notion · Decision log and risk documentation · https://notion.so

Copy-paste prompt block:

Before adopting this AI initiative:
Extract claims.
Assess feasibility.
Identify incentives.
If risk outweighs evidence, say so.

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🕹️ Game Over

Noise scales fast. Signal requires discipline.

— Aaron Automating the boring. Amplifying the brilliant.

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