Today in AI, I learned that ... the usage of AI can make dysfunctional organizations and processes even worse.
15 May 2026
Top 5 things:
- The more people use AI, the less they tend to ... think and connect to their work.
- AI tools can ... hurt trust within colleagues.
- AI tools can ... state factually wrong things even more professionally.
- AI brought more tools to managers, but ... the coordination problem still exists.
- AI can build "reasonable" theories without actual rationality. And people tend to ... just believe in it, without asking meta questions, like "How do we know what we know."
More about the topic in this fascinating post "AI Won't Save Your Dysfunctional Organization" by Bob Marshall.
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Ady Stokes
This is a great take. I especially agree with calling out people delighting thinking to AI
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