# AI Pre-Mortem

> A structured exercise where a panel of expert AI advisors imagines a future in which the plan has failed, then reasons backward to identify the risks and assumptions that caused the failure.

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## Definition

A structured exercise where a panel of expert AI advisors imagines a future in which the plan has failed, then reasons backward to identify the risks and assumptions that caused the failure. Based on Gary Klein’s pre-mortem technique (2007 HBR).

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