What should I ask for when AI feedback says my draft needs to be clearer?
Ask for the reason behind every suggested edit. "Make this clearer" can hand you something that sounds smoother and teaches you nothing about what was wrong. Have the review treat repetition and contradiction apart from unclear wording, and accept only the edits whose reasoning you agree with.
The writing-review example in the Trust Imperative conversation focused on redundancy, conflict and clarity, so treat those as three separate checks.
Each kind of problem needs a different ask
A repetition check should hand back both passages that make the same point. A contradiction check should name the statements that can't comfortably stand together. When a sentence is unclear, ask which words allow more than one reading.
A useful edit list has four fields: original passage, issue, explanation, optional revision. Keep that revision right next to the original, so you can see whether a condition or an exception dropped out, or the emphasis shifted.
Suppose your draft says a pilot is open to all staff in one paragraph and limited to a single team in another. That's a decision to settle before you improve the prose. The reviewer should flag the conflict and leave the choice to you.
What to try this week
Run the four-field review on a short announcement before a longer document. Afterward, check that you can explain why the finished draft says what it says, even though AI helped you review it.