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Now / 27 September 2026

# Where does human judgment belong?

27 September 2026Weekly noteAI + JJ

This week I've been working on the four AI principles I use, which grew out of Ethan Mollick's *Co-Intelligence*. I still find them useful. But as we move towards [co-existence with AI](https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/co-existence-and-the-end-of-co-intelligence), I think we need to give them more substance.

Especially “be the human in the loop”. If every decision has to come back to me, how much have I actually handed over?

The work now is to think more carefully about the arrangement: what we delegate, where judgment belongs, what happens with exceptions, and who supports the people carrying the consequences. Including the people closest to the work.

I'm still working on the wording. The question matters more than a tidy new slogan.

## A person is more than a briefing for a meeting

We've also expanded [my public context profile](https://joakim.jardenberg.net/). It brings together my working habits and ideas with the wider life they come from: family, values, history, curiosity and things I've helped make happen.

I want an AI preparing to work with me to understand something of that whole person. And I want the sources to be there, so a reader can tell what I've said about myself, what other people establish, and what is interpretation.

You can read it yourself or [connect your AI through the public MCP](https://joakim.jardenberg.net/mcp). Start with the short version and follow the parts relevant to your question. A useful first question: how might our ways of working fit together, and what should we talk about before starting?

## AI + JJ

I've made the crediting order explicit: AI + JJ. In Swedish, “AI med stöd av JJ”. That should reflect the work we actually do together.

The renewal of this site is a chance to make that visible. I want more of the things we build here to be available to explore, alongside the thinking behind them. I also want the site to feel like me: the choices, the language, the useful details.

That's the work ahead. AI should be visible in how it was made; my judgment should be visible in what we chose to make.

*Added 28 September 2026.*

And now that the site is here, I keep thinking about 1993. I was building websites then, handcrafting HTML. Thirty-three years later, I can build something like this by talking to an AI. We talk about what I want, look at what takes shape, question it and keep working until it feels like me.

I’ve spent those years working with the web, and I am still completely amazed by it. By what it can do, and by how we can now make things together. A conversation becomes a website that people can actually visit and use. That is absolutely mind-blowing.

In [The next 5,000 days of the web](https://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web?language=en&view=transcript), Kevin Kelly looked at the abundance the web had brought us and observed that it “is amazing, and we're not amazed.”

I hate to argue with Master Kevin Kelly but he was wrong. I am amazed.

AI + JJ. A dated editorial account of the work and thinking, with sources linked in the text.

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