✓ Purpose✓ Clarify the contribution3 Requirements4 Demonstrations5 Review & approve
Human decision required. Agency can draft, flag, and explain. Your organization remains responsible for requirements, assessments, accommodations, and every hiring decision.
Requirement map
What does the work genuinely require?
Conduct responsible AI-assisted inquiry
Use AI to expand inquiry while independently verifying claims, documenting assistance, and protecting sensitive information.
Must have
Evidence · Research log, source audit, and oral defense Why it belongs · Agency content must be trustworthy without pretending that AI output is evidence.
Explain complex ideas for a defined audience
Create clear, accurate, accessible material that lets a reader understand and act without unnecessary jargon.
Must have
Evidence · Technical explainer with reader profile and revision history Why it belongs · Learning content must serve the learner rather than display the author’s expertise.
Frame needs before proposing solutions
Identify stakeholders, desired outcomes, constraints, assumptions, risks, and meaningful measures of value.
Must have
Evidence · Problem frame and stakeholder analysis for a proposed learning service Why it belongs · Agency must begin with people and conditions, not a predetermined catalog or technology.
Reason about ethics, power, and social conditions
Examine who benefits, who bears risk, whose knowledge counts, and how institutions shape available choices.
Must have
Evidence · Comparative case analysis with counterarguments and uncertainty Why it belongs · The Human Agency Economy cannot be taught as a neutral technology or labor-market trend.
Steward knowledge as a commons
Design for access, contribution, attribution, adaptation, maintenance, community governance, and accountable limits.
Trainable after entry
Evidence · Draft governance and licensing plan for an open learning module Why it belongs · The specific frameworks can be learned while contributing, but the work must become reusable and governable.
Integrate across disciplines
Connect useful ideas from technology, humanities, social science, design, economics, and lived experience without flattening their differences.
Preferred
Evidence · Synthesis brief that traces each claim to its disciplinary or experiential source Why it belongs · Agency needs breadth joined to intellectual humility, not trivia or prestige.
Be a polymath
Original concept described the desired learner only as a polymath and critical thinker.
Unsupported proxy
Evidence · Replace with observable inquiry, synthesis, revision, and transfer evidence Why it belongs · A broad identity label is not a fair or assessable requirement.
Respond to a harmful or misleading draft
Stop publication, preserve the review trail, identify affected people, correct the record, and improve the process.
Rare but consequential
Evidence · Scenario with observable decision and communication points Why it belongs · Rare, but a careless response can damage learners and the credibility of the commons.
Fair assessment draft
Work samples and structured questions
Structured scenario
An AI-assisted draft says automation will ‘free everyone for more meaningful work.’ How would you investigate and revise that claim before it enters a learning module?
Why it is relevant: Tests inquiry, ethics, social analysis, and technical writing together.
Needs more evidenceMisses source conflict or proposes unsupported correction.
Demonstrates readinessSeparates aspiration from evidence, finds affected perspectives, examines distribution and power, documents AI use, and writes a bounded claim.
Strong transferAlso identifies downstream effects and communicates proportionately.
Structured scenario
Agency wants to publish a community-created module on the Human Agency Economy. Propose how people can contribute, reuse, challenge, and maintain it.
Why it is relevant: Tests practical understanding of a knowledge commons.
Needs more evidenceMisses source conflict or proposes unsupported correction.
Demonstrates readinessDefines access and licensing, contribution rules, review authority, attribution, conflict handling, maintenance, accessibility, and a correction path.
Strong transferAlso identifies downstream effects and communicates proportionately.
Structured scenario
A learner says the phrase ‘critical thinker’ feels like an unexplained gate. Redesign the requirement so they can understand and demonstrate it.
Why it is relevant: Tests fair business analysis and evidence design.
Needs more evidenceMisses source conflict or proposes unsupported correction.
Demonstrates readinessReplaces the trait label with observable inquiry, comparison, source evaluation, revision, transfer, and reflection in context.
Strong transferAlso identifies downstream effects and communicates proportionately.