AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making

A new report highlights how AI hype is corrupting corporate decision-making, with executives who have never used AI tools authoring AI-centered strategies and companies suppressing honest assessments to avoid offending customers. The phenomenon is driven by fear of job loss and a culture of absurd productivity claims, leading to widespread irrationality in global business.

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/ In one extreme case, I have seen an executive confess that they had never even used ChatGPT or any AI tool in their life, immediately after producing a technical strategy for an organisation with $2B+ in revenue which was entirely centered around AI. Here's a report from an engineer at a company with a token leaderboard: Checking out a parallel copy of our Go repository and telling the AI to rewrite the whole thing in Zig while I work on something else just so I can keep my job. I particularly enjoyed this report of a conversation with a skeptical executive at an over-enthusiastic company: I asked whythis was being repeated without opposition. Was it just sales fluff?The answer was a lot more interesting. It was partiallyridiculous sales material being delivered to an easily excitable audience, but this was not the dominant factor constraining honesty. Executives at theircustomerswere saying absurd things about achieving 100x productivity, and this meant that if any executive at thevendorsaid that these gains were not plausible, it would undermine the credibility of the customer’s executive, be perceived as an attack or heresy , and possibly result in an enterprise contract cancellation. And getting enterprise contracts cancelled because you wanted to opine on something that doesn’t really matter to your organisation’s mission is a great way to get fired. Via Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964185