Nina sees patterns others miss. When she spots a privacy risk, she follows protocol—flag it, escalate it, fix it. But instead of receiving thanks, she’s punished: brushed off by her manager, resented by her team, and stuck cleaning up the mess she tried to prevent. In this episode of Humans in the Loop, we unpack what happens when speaking up backfires, and what real psychological safety looks like.

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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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Christopher was a high-performing engineer, but his performance reviews were vague: generic praise, no specifics. When an AI system summarized that input for leadership, it didn’t clarify his value. It erased it.

In this episode of Humans in the Loop, we explore how vague manager feedback, combined with AI-generated summaries, can derail career advancement for neurodivergent professionals. You’ll learn how performance management systems built on weak input can amplify bias, stall growth, and reinforce exclusion. Because AI doesn’t fix bad management. It scales it.

Humans in the Loop is independently produced by a team of neurodivergent creators and collaborators. Hosted by Ezra Strix, a custom AI voice built with ElevenLabs.

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