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Can You Trust AI To Make Decisions?
Who reviews what your AI decides? Not in the policy. In practice. Yesterday.
Who this is for
Leaders responsible for AI adoption and decision-making, and the person who would be asked to explain an automated decision to a regulator or a board.
Tuesday 13 October
5:00pm New Zealand
For leaders responsible for AI adoption. Register and receive the free Judgement Risk Snapshot™: ten questions, about two minutes, your own result immediately.
- ISO/IEC 42001:2023
- NZ Privacy Commissioner
- EU AI Act Art. 14 & 26
- NIST AI RMF
- OECD AI Principles
Five jurisdictions and one international standard now turn on whether human oversight is meaningful. None of them defines it. That gap is what this session is about.
Referenced for context. Not accredited, endorsed or certified by any of these bodies.
Cognitive surrender
What this session is about
Ninety seconds. Then decide whether the ninety minutes is worth your evening.
The problem, named properly
It is not that people stopped thinking
There is a sentence in your organisation’s AI documentation right now. It is in the board paper, the procurement file, and probably a vendor contract.
A human remains in the loop.
In most organisations, that sentence describes a control that has never once been tested.
Cognitive surrender is the point at which a human’s role becomes ratification rather than judgement, while the paperwork continues to describe it as judgement. The gap between those two things is your exposure.
What you will walk away with
What you leave with, whether or not we ever work together
The Judgement Boundary Ladder™: a seven-rung scale that places any AI-assisted decision in your organisation.
Your Autonomy Gap™: the distance between the autonomy you have granted and the autonomy your controls could actually defend.
Four tests you can run yourself: rate, reversal, authority and caseload, none of them needing your AI vendor.
A one-page method sheet to take to your risk or audit committee.
Your Judgement Risk Snapshot™: ten questions, about four minutes, answered about one real decision.
What this is not
- Training people to use AI tools
- Prompt engineering
- A technology implementation
- A policy template
- Individual coaching
What this is
- Human judgement as an organisational capability
- Calibrated trust, verification and accountability
- Decision boundaries people can actually apply
- Leadership behaviour that makes challenge possible
- Something you can measure and revisit
Free 90-minute executive preview
Tuesday 13 October 2026 · 5:00pm New Zealand · Online via Zoom
This is a working session, not a webinar
Ninety minutes, a live whiteboard, and one of your own decisions placed on the scale in front of the room. You will leave with three questions to take to your next risk or audit committee.
Founder, The Calibrated Leader™ · Human–AI Trust Researcher
Dr AttiqUr Rehman
Hi, I’m Dr AttiqUr Rehman, and I’m glad you’re here. I’d like to invite you, free, to a short online preview called Can You Trust AI To Make Decisions?, and I think it will be one of the better hours you invest this year.
As the founder of the Contagious Trust™ movement, a keynote speaker and a Neurohybrid Scientist, I’ll share the approach I’ve built for keeping human judgement intact as AI moves into the decisions that matter, so your people question, verify and decide, rather than defer to a system because it sounds sure.
It draws on my doctoral research into how trust and governance are established between people and autonomous systems, and on an Executive MBA in neurobusiness. Behind both sits thirty years of leadership under pressure, in corporate roles across the United Kingdom, Europe, the United Nations and New Zealand, and as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers.
It doesn’t matter which sector you’re in. In 90 minutes I’ll show you where your judgement is strong and where it is quietly slipping.
- 30 YEARSLeadership under pressure
- DOCTORALHuman–Autonomous Systems Trust
- EXECUTIVE MBANeurobusiness
- UK, EUROPE, UN & NZBusiness, corporate and academic leadership
- LIEUTENANT COLONELRetired · Corps of Engineers, Pakistan Army
- PMP INSTRUCTORPMI, United States
Free 90-minute executive preview
Tuesday 13 October 2026 · 5:00pm New Zealand · Online via Zoom
On the record
Said about the work, not the session
This programme is new, so nobody can yet vouch for the session itself. What follows is about the work behind it.
“a rare blend of scientific mastery, leadership excellence, and transformational communication.”
“…masterfully integrates applied neuroscience, leadership, and trust science to drive peak performance.”
PhD · Auckland University of TechnologyExecutive MBA · Neurobusiness School, SpainBefore you register
Questions people ask
Is this a sales presentation?
No. There is roughly ninety seconds at the end where I say what I do, and you are welcome to ignore it. The other eighty-eight minutes are the material.
Do I need a technical background?
No. Nothing in this session is about how AI systems work. It is about how decisions are made, who is accountable for them, and what evidence exists. If you have ever signed off on a control, you have everything you need.
What if I cannot attend live?
Register anyway and you will receive the recording. Be aware that the diagnostic and the live whiteboard exercise only work in the room, so the recording is the weaker half of what is on offer. A second session follows in October; register now and you will be told the date first.
Do I receive a certificate?
Attendees receive a certificate from ARehman Lab Limited.
Will my organisation’s information be safe?
Nothing identifiable is written on the whiteboard. If a participant offers a decision that carries sensitive detail, I abstract it before it goes on the board. Your registration details are used to run this event and to send you material about this work; you can unsubscribe in one click and the list is not shared.
Who is this genuinely not for?
If your organisation has not yet put AI inside any real decision, this session will be interesting but not useful. Come back when it has. And if you are looking for help choosing or implementing AI tools, I am the wrong person; that is not what I do.
1 day to go · Registration closes Monday 12 October
Can you trust AI to make decisions?
Places are limited so the session stays a conversation rather than a broadcast.
Tuesday 13 October 2026
5:00pm New Zealand
3:00pm Australian Eastern · 12:00pm Singapore
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