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Decision Intelligence: Integrating AI into Decision-Making
Guest Article by Esha Pathak
In today’s data-driven world, AI alone can't drive meaningful outcomes. Organizations need frameworks like Decision Intelligence (DI), which blends AI, data science, and cognitive science. DI helps automate tasks and generate insights for smarter decisions. Without it, companies risk being overwhelmed by data complexity, leading to inefficiencies and missed opportunities.
Take Walmart as an example. Facing challenges in supply chain management and inventory forecasting, they implemented DI tools, including Wally, their generative decision intelligence model. Wally automates reporting, analyzes complex data, and provides actionable insights in plain language, enabling merchants to quickly address sales trends, inventory issues, and performance gaps while automating tasks.
By 2025, Gartner predicts 25% of supply chain decisions will be made through intelligent ecosystems. Walmart’s use of DI not only boosted operational efficiency but also enabled faster, smarter decisions in inventory, pricing, and market responses—without needing technical expertise. This shift gave them a competitive edge, improving both efficiency and customer satisfaction.
In today’s fast-paced market, adopting DI is essential for businesses to stay agile, make data-driven decisions, and maintain a competitive advantage.
Trust and Accountability in AI-Driven Decision-Making
While the rise in AI-dependent decisions is trending upwards, a key challenge remains building trust in AI’s decision-making. According to a 2021 PwC survey, only 33% of CEOs have a high degree of trust in having AI embedded into key processes. This lack of trust stems from AI’s “black box” nature, where algorithms make decisions that aren’t always explainable. To overcome this, AI systems need to be transparent and provide clear explanations of their decision-making process.
AI must also be designed with accountability in mind. A General Electric (GE) case study shows the risks of biased AI in predictive maintenance. GE’s AI, trained mainly on high-performing equipment data, misjudged failures in underperforming machines, causing unexpected downtimes. The problem stemmed from unrepresentative data. GE adjusted its data strategy and model, emphasizing the need for diverse data and human oversight.
The Risks of Over-Reliance
Despite the benefits that Decision Intelligence provides for strategic output, over-reliance on AI for decision-making presents several risks. AI can inherit biases from training data, leading to unfair outcomes in areas like hiring or lending. Privacy concerns arise as AI processes vast amounts of sensitive data, increasing the risk of breaches. Lack of transparency and explainability in AI decisions can erode trust, while unchecked AI may reinforce social inequalities and lack accountability.
Moreover, an over-reliance on AI for decision-making risks diminishing the workforce’s critical thinking skills—an essential asset for long-term resilience and adaptability.
This raises important questions:
What human capabilities are we sidelining?
What risks emerge when we outsource too much judgment to machines?
And how can we move forward in a way that preserves what matters most?
A Collaborative Future of AI and Human Decision-Making
The future of decision-making lies in collaboration between humans and AI. Accenture reports that companies failing to integrate human judgment into AI-driven decisions are less likely to see financial returns from their AI investments.
However, as AI evolves, it must remain transparent, accessible, and understandable to empower decision-makers to trust and use it effectively.
With startups like Mechanize entering the tech space, there's a growing push to displace white-collar jobs and reduce human involvement in traditionally people-driven sectors. While this presents massive economic potential, it risks ignoring the role of human context in service provision or product development.
Similarly, Klarna’s AI rollout boosts efficiency and scale, but full automation risks losing nuance. Optimal impact comes from AI-human workflows—AI for speed, humans for context, trust, and edge-case handling.
Given this, AI’s role should be to augment human judgment, not replace it. In the healthcare space, Tempus demonstrates how AI and human collaboration can drive meaningful progress. Tempus analyzes vast clinical and molecular data to support oncologists in diagnosing and treating cancer. While AI improves precision, doctors are essential to ethical patient care—illustrating that the best outcomes come from augmenting, not replacing, human expertise.
Key Takeaways & Next Steps
By integrating AI with human expertise through decision intelligence, businesses can enhance decision speed and quality. AI offers data precision and scalability, while humans provide context and strategic foresight.
This collaboration shifts organizations from reactive to proactive decision-making, minimizing bias and fostering innovation. The competitive edge lies in systems that blend machine intelligence with human judgment for smarter, faster, and more responsible choices.
Events Spotlight
🗽 New York: NYC Demo Night
At Fenwick’s sleek NYC office, eight of the city’s most promising AI startups took the stage for our NYC demo night, in partnership with Product Hunt and M13. From infrastructure to UX, marketing tools to Web3 agents, the demos sparked real-time feedback, lightbulb moments, and deeper conversations about what it takes to build in AI right now.
Founders from Eden, Averi AI, FlowAI, Context, Runhouse, and CarbonCopies AI showcased live products to a packed room of operators, investors, and builders. Beyond just observing, attendees voted, questioned, and engaged, making the event feel more like a collaborative product lab than a pitch stage. With strong community energy and one of the city’s best tech crowds, this was AI in action, not theory!
🌁 SF Bay Area: GenAI Collective x Thesys – Exploring Generative UI
At Werqwise in San Francisco, the GenAI Collective partnered with Thesys for an evening focused on the future of human-computer interaction. The program opened with a keynote introducing GenUI, Thesys’s platform for designing interfaces tailored to AI agents. This was followed by a fireside chat with Freshworks founder Girish Mathrubootham and Pylon CEO Marty Kausas, who shared insights on what it takes to build enduring software in an era of rapidly evolving interfaces.
Later in the evening, a series of fast-paced demos gave the audience a glimpse into how startups are rethinking product experiences with generative UI at the core. The room was filled with builders, designers, and investors eager to understand how AI is reshaping the way people interact with technology. From deep conversations to hands-on exploration, the event made it clear that generative UI is becoming a new frontier for product innovation.
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About Esha Pathak
Esha Pathak is an AI product manager, builder, writer, and corporate creative. She currently works at EY, where she builds enterprise products at the intersection of emerging tech and strategy. By night, she leads TechStack—a growing community and publication for professionals navigating the corporate world with creativity and purpose. When not working, you’ll find her reading or deep in a coffee shop corner. ☕
About Noah Frank
Noah is the co-founder of Aurix and has spent his career both working at startups and advising global leaders on innovation strategy. His work and body of research focus on AI policy, anticipatory governance, and effective decision-making. When not working to make emerging tech work for all, you can find him making music with his band. 🎸
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