The Monoculture Trap: When AI Coordinates Too Well
AI agents are excellent at finding the obvious answer. That sounds like a compliment until the task is to avoid everyone else’s obvious answer. Imagine three firms using AI assistants to screen applicants, forecast demand, or decide which customer segments deserve attention. If the goal is consistency, shared focal points are useful. Everyone reads the same policy, applies similar criteria, and avoids the usual mess of human improvisation. Lovely. The spreadsheet smiles. ...