Dignity-Preserving AI Scorecard

Evaluate whether an AI or automation proposal protects human dignity, professional formation, accountability, and shared gains.

15 minutes / free

Before you start

Creates a decision record for an AI or automation proposal by checking hard stops, dignity safeguards, human-development planning, and 30/60/90 review prompts.

Use it before a pilot, vendor decision, workflow automation, staffing change, or client-facing AI rollout.

Next action: start the tool, answer with current assumptions, then use the report to decide what to verify.

Start the AI scorecard

What you get

  • Hard-stop review
  • Score out of 30 with recommendation
  • Weak categories and safeguards
  • Human-development and review prompts

Recommended prep

Review the connected resource if the tool touches a decision the firm will rely on.

Browse related sources

Recommended before or during this tool

These sources explain the methodology behind the tool and can help sharpen the inputs before the report is treated as settled.

Human-Centered Innovation

Dignity Is Not Redundancy

article

A core human-centered innovation source for treating AI adoption as a dignity, formation, and stewardship question.

dignityAI adoptionhuman developmentshared gainsreadingtool prep

Best used with Dignity-Preserving AI Scorecard.

Owner prompt: Whose professional formation changes if this task is automated?

Human-Centered Innovation

Human Hand, Intelligent Tool

article

A deeper treatise on the relationship between human craft, intelligent tools, and responsible professional work.

human craftintelligent toolsresponsible automationprofessional systemsreadingtool prep

Best used with Dignity-Preserving AI Scorecard and Template-to-System Mapper.

Owner prompt: What professional skill should this workflow still develop?

Human-Centered Innovation

Dignity Is Not Redundancy Presentation

presentation

Presentation material supporting the Dignity Is Not Redundancy framework for workshops, CLE, and leadership discussion.

workshopAI stewardshiphuman dignityleadership discussionworkshopcle

Best used with Dignity-Preserving AI Scorecard.

Owner prompt: Which scorecard questions should become workshop exercises?

Human-Centered Innovation

Human Hand, Intelligent Tool Presentation

presentation

Presentation material for teaching and discussion around human capability and intelligent tools.

workshopintelligent toolsprofessional developmentsystemsworkshopcle

Best used with Dignity-Preserving AI Scorecard and Template-to-System Mapper.

Owner prompt: What should be taught before this tool is deployed?

Human-Centered Innovation

ABA Formal Opinion 512: Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools

external

ABA ethics guidance for lawyers using generative AI tools, including duties around competence, confidentiality, communication, and supervision.

AI ethicscompetenceconfidentialitysupervisiontool prepreport review

Best used with Dignity-Preserving AI Scorecard.

Owner prompt: What competence and supervision obligations attach to this tool use?

Going Pro

Clio 2024 Legal Trends Report

external

Industry report with law-firm operational benchmarks, client expectations, automation, and practice-management context.

law firm metricsclient expectationsautomationoperationstool prepreport review

Best used with Legal Market Sizer, Dignity-Preserving AI Scorecard, and 2 more BLKBox tools.

Owner prompt: Which firm metric should be reviewed before choosing the next project?

Human-Centered Innovation

Build ladders before removing floors

strategy-note

AI can remove repetitive work, but some repetitive work also teaches judgment. A responsible implementation names what learning is removed and what ladder replaces it.

AI stewardshipformationhuman dignityreadingtool prep

Name one task being automated and the learning function it currently provides.

Owner prompt: Name one task being automated and the learning function it currently provides.

Fictional example

AI intake summary assistant

A managing partner wants to summarize intake calls faster without removing the learning function junior staff currently get from reviewing client narratives.

Sample inputs

  • Affected roles: intake coordinator, junior associate, supervising attorney
  • Hard-stop review for worker voice, formation risk, and accountability
  • Scorecard criteria around shared gains, training budget, and junior learning

Sample output

  • Decision recommendation with any hard stops highlighted
  • Human-development plan prompts
  • 30/60/90 review prompts for quality and formation

Caution

  • This is a planning aid; a strong score does not answer legal, employment, privacy, compliance, or professional-responsibility questions by itself.

Sample completed report preview

The proposal can move only as a monitored pilot if worker voice, junior learning, and final accountability are made explicit before launch.

Fictional sample for orientation only

Key metrics

  • Score: 22/30
  • Hard stops: none triggered after redesign
  • Weak categories: formation value and training budget

Weak areas

  • Junior learning may be reduced if intake summaries become invisible.
  • Training time is not yet budgeted.

Assumptions to verify

  • The tool will assist intake summaries rather than make client or professional judgments.
  • Affected roles have a meaningful chance to review and challenge the proposed workflow.
  • A supervising attorney remains responsible for final quality and use.

Next clean moves

  • Document who owns quality, confidentiality, bias, provenance, and final judgment.
  • Create 30/60/90 review tasks.
  • Map the workflow in Template-to-System before expansion.

Source references

  • Dignity Is Not Redundancy: Use to test whether voice, formation, accountability, and shared gains are protected.
  • Human Hand, Intelligent Tool: Use to keep craft, review, and professional judgment visible inside the workflow.

Follow-up rhythm

  • 30 days: 30-day AI pilot review. Review quality, worker voice, junior learning, and accountability ownership.
  • 90 days: 90-day expansion decision. Decide whether to continue, redesign, expand, or stop the workflow change.

Consulting bridge

  • Request AI stewardship review when hard stops, worker voice, accountability, or shared-gains design are contested.

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Proposal basics

Describe the change clearly enough that the scorecard can become a decision record.

Method sources

These materials provide strategic context for the tool. The tool output remains a planning aid.

Human-Centered Innovation

Dignity Is Not Redundancy

article

A core human-centered innovation source for treating AI adoption as a dignity, formation, and stewardship question.

dignityAI adoptionhuman developmentshared gainsreadingtool prep

Best used with Dignity-Preserving AI Scorecard.

Owner prompt: Whose professional formation changes if this task is automated?

Human-Centered Innovation

Human Hand, Intelligent Tool

article

A deeper treatise on the relationship between human craft, intelligent tools, and responsible professional work.

human craftintelligent toolsresponsible automationprofessional systemsreadingtool prep

Best used with Dignity-Preserving AI Scorecard and Template-to-System Mapper.

Owner prompt: What professional skill should this workflow still develop?

Human-Centered Innovation

Dignity Is Not Redundancy Presentation

presentation

Presentation material supporting the Dignity Is Not Redundancy framework for workshops, CLE, and leadership discussion.

workshopAI stewardshiphuman dignityleadership discussionworkshopcle

Best used with Dignity-Preserving AI Scorecard.

Owner prompt: Which scorecard questions should become workshop exercises?

Human-Centered Innovation

Human Hand, Intelligent Tool Presentation

presentation

Presentation material for teaching and discussion around human capability and intelligent tools.

workshopintelligent toolsprofessional developmentsystemsworkshopcle

Best used with Dignity-Preserving AI Scorecard and Template-to-System Mapper.

Owner prompt: What should be taught before this tool is deployed?

Human-Centered Innovation

ABA Formal Opinion 512: Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools

external

ABA ethics guidance for lawyers using generative AI tools, including duties around competence, confidentiality, communication, and supervision.

AI ethicscompetenceconfidentialitysupervisiontool prepreport review

Best used with Dignity-Preserving AI Scorecard.

Owner prompt: What competence and supervision obligations attach to this tool use?

Going Pro

Clio 2024 Legal Trends Report

external

Industry report with law-firm operational benchmarks, client expectations, automation, and practice-management context.

law firm metricsclient expectationsautomationoperationstool prepreport review

Best used with Legal Market Sizer, Dignity-Preserving AI Scorecard, and 2 more BLKBox tools.

Owner prompt: Which firm metric should be reviewed before choosing the next project?

Human-Centered Innovation

Build ladders before removing floors

strategy-note

AI can remove repetitive work, but some repetitive work also teaches judgment. A responsible implementation names what learning is removed and what ladder replaces it.

AI stewardshipformationhuman dignityreadingtool prep

Name one task being automated and the learning function it currently provides.

Owner prompt: Name one task being automated and the learning function it currently provides.