AI Model Selection, Tasks, and Responsible Use Cases
Lesson 4: The AI Use-Case Decision Memo
Lesson Objectives
By the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
- Write a concise AI use-case decision memo.
- Include task, data, risk, approach, and review plan.
- Explain a decision in language a non-technical stakeholder can understand.
Lesson Content
A decision memo turns scattered AI ideas into a clear recommendation. It should be short enough to read, but specific enough to act on.
Use this structure:
- Use case: What are we trying to improve?
- Task: What input does AI receive and what output should it produce?
- Data readiness: What do we have and what is missing?
- Risk level: Who could be affected and what could go wrong?
- Recommended approach: prompt, feature, retrieval, automation, custom model, or no AI for now.
- Review plan: Who checks output and how?
- Next test: What small test proves whether the idea is worth continuing?
This format keeps AI work honest. It prevents hype from replacing judgment.
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