What AI Cannot Replace in Evaluation: The Role of Human Judgment: gLOCAL Evaluation Week 2026

As AI becomes increasingly embedded in evaluation practice, an important question remains:
What can technology support, and what must remain fundamentally human?
Featuring Aditi Chatterjee (Independent Research & MEL Specialist), Rahul Shah (Non-Profit Consultant & OD Expert), Sharon Weir (Co-founder, The 4th Wheel), and Payal Mulchandani (Co-founder, The 4th Wheel),

This session explores the role of judgment, context, lived experience, ethics, and decision-making in an AI-enabled world.

Learn about:
• Why human judgment remains central to evaluation
• The limitations of AI in understanding context and lived realities
• The importance of validation and stakeholder engagement
• How evaluators can balance efficiency with responsibility
• Skills that will become even more important in the age of AI

The session was moderated by Aivya Jain (Founders' Office, The 4th Wheel) as part of our gLOCAL Evaluation Week 2026 series.

⏱️ Chapters
00:00 Introduction
05:00 Can AI Design Better Evaluations?
10:30 What AI Misses About Lived Experience
18:45 Who Gets Left Out of AI-Generated Insights?
28:20 AI Can Synthesize. Humans Must Interpret.
38:15 Why Organizations Still Need Human Facilitators
49:30 Where Human Judgment Matters Most
55:00 Audience Q&A
56:00 Is AI Monitoring Your Enumerators?
01:02:00 Privacy, Safeguarding, and Evaluation Ethics
01:10:30 Training Humans Before Training AI
01:18:45 Can AI Recognize Power and Inequality?
01:26:30 Building More Human-Centered Evaluations
01:34:00 What the DPDP Act Means for Evaluators
01:40:15 The One Thing AI Cannot Replace
01:45:30 Final Takeaways

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