Jory Des Jardins

Founder

Candor Partners

Jory Des Jardins spent her career building narrative and driving adoption for frontier technologies — from co-founding BlogHer, one of the first major platforms for women's digital media (acquired 2014), to blockchain, privacy tech, cloud, and AR/VR. Today, as founder of Candor Partners, she works at the edge of AI transformation, tracking adoption patterns across dozens of organizations in real time. She's the creator of Human Agency Architecture (HAA), a framework helping leaders decide which decisions to hand to AI and which to keep firmly in human hands — and the "Trough of Accountability," her name for what happens when organizations move faster than their judgment. Jory speaks and teaches on this work through LinkedIn Learning, Maven, and has appeared in Fast Company, Inc., Adweek, Forbes, and The New York Times.

Sessions

Oct 27

10:35 AM - 11:00 AM PDT

Red Stage

AI Trust

Ethics & Governance

Human-AI Collaboration

Operationalizing Judgment in the AI Era: A Framework

AI adoption introduces two risks to insights organizations: the Productivity Alibi, which lets output quality erode while dashboards look fine, and cognitive foreclosure, which erodes judgment before it fully develops. This talk introduces a five-category framework for operationalizing judgment without sacrificing quality of intelligence — mapped directly onto research work.

Key Takeaways:

1. The two risks of AI adoption that impact the insights organization.

2. How cognitive foreclosure erodes judgment even as intelligence seems sound.

3. A five-category framework for mapping AI delegation across research work.

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