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A safety zone, not a penalty box

October 16, 2026

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How do you let someone new do real work before they've earned your trust? And does the same thing work for AI?

My co-host Trisha Merriam described a team that puts new people in a back-end pool where their work is checked. They don't graduate until enough of it is logged for someone to feel confident in their decisions.

I asked her, "How do we do that with AI?"

"Same thing, right? You're in a box. It's not a penalty box. It's a safety zone."

Let AI do real work where someone checks it before it goes any further.

Where this came from

The Trust Ladder: From Summarize to Act — AI Readiness, Part 2

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