#127 - How to Protect Your Judgment When AI Does More of the Work with Harry Laplanche

If AI can gather the evidence, run the analysis, and make the recommendation, what's left for you? Harry Laplanche, Head of AI Strategy and Transformation at Panasonic, believes the answer is judgment, and that it's the one thing we can't afford to outsource. Harry's roots are in consumer insights, psychology, and behavioral science, which gives him a rare lens on why AI adoption actually fails: giving people access to tools is nowhere near enough. Adoption depends on connecting AI to the real work people are measured and rewarded on. In this conversation, Harry shares what it looks like to lead AI transformation inside a global hardware conglomerate, why the change has to come from the top down and bottom up at the same time, and his idea of the missing middle, the space between a big transformation vision and the messy reality of making decisions day to day. The highlight is his decision architecture workflow, where AI gathers all the evidence but withholds its recommendation until Harry has made his own call, so he can compare the two and build his judgment like a muscle. He walks through it in enough detail that you can build your own version. If you're worried about outsourcing your thinking to AI, or wondering how to help your people keep making good decisions as AI does more of the work, this episode gives you a practical way forward.