The AI Trust Problem: When Work Becomes Too Easy
A strategy deck used to signal at least some amount of effort. Today it can also mean that someone ran a model and outsourced the checking to the client.
AI is transforming knowledge work. Let's decode what that means.
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Executive Briefing: Your Three Jobs in Management
Many reorganisations treat management as one single block. In reality, it contains at least three jobs: coordination, sensemaking, and accountability. AI mostly makes the first one cheaper.
Loop Instead of Pipeline
AI is not just speeding up work. It challenges the operating model that knowledge work has been built around.
Executive Briefing: Why Employees Sabotage AI When the Deal Is Broken
If employees are asked to feed their knowledge into systems while management talks about leaner teams, this is not an adoption problem. It is a prisoner's dilemma.
Co-Determination as Architecture
The German path is slower. That may help, because it forces companies to spell out what is actually changing about the work.
Margin Notes
When SaaS Products Onboard Agents
SaaS vendors are starting to ship their products as agent-readable operating packages. The real competition is moving toward the defaults agents carry into the workflow.
AI Engineering Is Now in the Fine Print
The German labor market is not suddenly looking only for AI Engineers. It is adding AI responsibility to existing IT roles, often without time, mandate, or evaluation standards.
AI Is the Second Social Question
Leo XIV treats artificial intelligence as a new social question about power, work, and responsibility. The interesting point is the line back to Rerum Novarum and the upheavals of industrialization.
The Jobpocalypse Is Not Yet a Finding
Andrew Ng pushes back against the AI jobpocalypse. The better question is not whether the story is true, but where forecast, sales frame, and quiet erosion of learning ramps overlap.
IBM Called It FUD. Microsoft Calls It Shadow AI.
Microsoft calls informal agent use Shadow AI. The risk is real, but the framing shifts ownership, budget logic, and the search space for solutions.