AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking

That and utterly destroying original thinking.

Hype can crowd out careful thinking.

Thanks for sharing. I think this one is even safe to share with some work colleagues.

Fantastic essay.

I feel I’m going sane in a crazy world.

One small solace is that I’ve seen more than one person fall for the hype, but eventually work their way back to reality.

It does sound just like a cult.

What is puzzling to me is there seem to be no companies which take a deliberate, measured, experimental approach.

No “You can use that but you have to report on difficulties or disadvantages”.

No “you can use it but not when correctness is critical, errors could harm people, or it can directly affect things critical for our business”.

No “Give us first an estimate in how long it will take, we write it down, and then we will roll a dice, decide if it will be done using AI, and after 50 tries we will compare whether it makes a difference”.

No “You can use AI, but you are responsible that the result works, and failure to do so gives you minus points”.

No “You can use it, your max token budget is 100 USD per month”.

No “You can use it, but do not input any company secrets, confidential data, medical records, or things like passwords and security-relevant data”.

There seems to be zero risk management.

Has also some good practical suggestions for programmers that are affected by this, in the last sections.