AI is filling companies with unremarkable thinkers.
They say that those who don’t learn how to use AI will be replaced by those that do. But few are seeing ahead to what this implies.
If most business decisions are bounced of chat bots like ChatGPT, Claude, CoPilot and Gemini, what happens?
The responses will all converge to some maximally probable output.
They will be average.
They will be unremarkable.
What makes this worse is that the models have their own incentives.
They’re optimized to satisfy you.
To bring you back. To tell you what you want to hear.
The same engagement mechanics you hate in your Instagram feed are baked into that chat window.
The thing no one mentions about Moneyball is that it quickly stopped being a competitive advantage once everyone adopted it. The advantage moved to identifying where and why Moneyball was wrong.
Do you really want to bake average thinking into your company’s culture?
Now is the time to build a competitive advantage using AI, but only if you identify its shortcomings.