AIsTheWrongSolution
Demons possess AI. It lulls you into a carnal sense of security. It gives you a demonic advantage and a reliance on it for your "edge", your organization may get very wealthy, but your own soul will be lost. Was the money and success worth it?
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The most valuable skill in the AI era may not be prompting. It may be judgment. I recently watched a leadership team accept a workforce recommendation without a single question asked. The recommendation came from an AI tool — clean dashboard, confident language, tidy outputs. The team nodded and moved on. No one asked where the data came from. No one questioned the assumptions baked into the model. I've seen this play out across industries. And a research paper a friend sent me over the weekend gave it a name. Researchers Shaw and Nave from the Wharton School call it cognitive surrender, the tendency to accept AI-generated answers without questioning or verifying them. Their experiments found that people followed AI responses even when the AI was wrong. And grew more confident in their answers simply because AI produced them. That last part is what stays with me. Here's what I've been thinking about: this doesn't happen all at once. It starts with one decision made under pressure. Then another. Then it becomes the default. The comfort builds slowly, and somewhere along the way the habit of actually thinking it through disappears. And it's not just a workplace problem. We bring the same habits home. The brain is a muscle. If we stop using it, we lose it. And perhaps more importantly, we learn and grow from our mistakes. When AI absorbs those mistakes for us, we aren't just saved from failure. We are deprived of growth. A divide is already forming between people who use AI to expand their thinking and people who use AI to replace it. Both groups believe they are using AI well. The outcomes will be very different. I wrote about all of this in full on Substack, the research, what it means for leaders and organizations, and the questions I think we all need to sit with.