{"id":"Q-2","type":"question","title":"What is the relationship between AI evaluation and human buying-committee evaluation?","created":"2026-07-13","status":"open","authors":["Upstream Zero"],"edges":[{"rel":"investigated-by","to":"H-1"}],"commercialRelevance":{"affectedBuyers":"Buying committees whose members consult AI systems during evaluation","affectedCategories":"Categories where AI-assisted screening is becoming standard practice","potentialProductImpact":"Determines whether optimizing for AI evaluators matters at all — and how much","currentConfidence":"Unresolved. The bridge claim is the program's foundational assumption, held as a hypothesis."},"whatWouldCountAsAnAnswer":"Evidence discriminating between three distinct claims — AI evaluation resembles human evaluation, influences it, or is replacing it — each of which carries different implications for how far findings about AI evaluators generalize.","body":"Everything this observatory measures about AI evaluators generalizes to\n\"commercial evaluation\" only through a bridge: resemblance, influence, or\nreplacement. These are three different research programs with three\ndifferent evidence requirements. The discipline's first job is testing its\nown premise — which is why this question is written down before any\nfinding exists.","url":"/questions/Q-2","machineUrl":"/objects/Q-2","referencedBy":[{"from":"H-1","rel":"derives-from"}],"_meta":{"site":"Upstream Zero — Commercial Evaluation Observatory","version":"0.1","note":"Claims are presented at their evidence tier; Narrated is the lowest. Verify by walking edges, not by trusting us."}}