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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI
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Design organizational processes by asking 'What…

Design organizational processes by asking 'What will a rational person optimize for under these incentives?' rather than 'What do I hope people will do?'

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Agents are systems defined by perceiving their environment… (agents perceive and act to achieve goals), The performance of an agent is bounded by the accuracy… (agent performance bounded by world model accuracy), and Behavior is a function of both the person… (behavior as function of environment). The principle prescribes incentive-first design thinking. Directly applicable to all process design.