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  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/use-recommendation-mode-as-an-option-generator-not-a-verdict",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0378",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Use recommendation mode as an option generator, not a verdict",
  "summary": "Novel is useful raw material. It is not an authority level.",
  "kind": "heuristic",
  "body": "When you need breadth, ask AI for recommendations or options deliberately, then move them into your own comparison process. Treat the recommendations as candidates that need fit, evidence and constraints applied. This captures the novelty advantage observed in recommendation-centric support without confusing lower cognitive effort with better judgment.",
  "limits": [
    "The cited decision-support study used one investment task; use this as an interaction pattern to test, not a claim that recommendation mode always improves creativity."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-ai-assisted-thinking-work"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-86C1F814F0644FAE"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "In the ExtendAI comparison, recommendation-based AI provided more novel insights while requiring less cognitive effort than the rationale-extending condition.",
      "source_id": "RS-86C1F814F0644FAE",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Novelty and lower effort are not automatically better decision quality; the choice of interaction mode should match the job.",
      "locator": "Abstract results"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "You want AI's ability to surface novel possibilities but do not want low-effort advice to become the decision."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "The cited decision-support study used one investment task; use this as an interaction pattern to test, not a claim that recommendation mode always improves creativity."
  ],
  "example": "Use AI to propose three migration approaches, then evaluate each against downtime, reversibility, data volume and support constraints.",
  "check": "AI increases the option set without becoming the final decision rule.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-86C1F814F0644FAE",
      "title": "AI, Help Me Think—but for Myself: Assisting People in Complex Decision-Making by Providing Different Kinds of Cognitive Support",
      "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/ai-help-me-think-but-for-myself-assisting-people-in-complex-decision-making-by-providing-different-kinds-of-cognitive-support/"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-433FB61AA7D7AF43",
      "title": "Use AI where it helps, and keep the thinking that still matters",
      "url": "/collections/use-ai-where-it-helps-and-keep-the-thinking-that-still-matters"
    }
  ]
}