Jordan and Sasha don’t know Christopher, but they know the tools his managers used. The policies. The performance system. The need to sound aligned, reasonable, calibrated—no matter what’s actually happening on the team. In this companion to "Trust and Bias in AI Decision Making" (Episode 3), we step sideways into the world of HR-approved feedback, alignment meetings, and quiet complicity. What happens when no one wants to say the hard thing… but everyone needs it on record?

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