Smarter, Not Wiser: What Happens When AI Boosts Our Efficiency but Not Our Minds
Work gets finished. The deck is sharper, the spreadsheet less embarrassing, the email sounds as though it passed through an adult, and the analyst who was supposed to spend three hours wrestling with a problem now appears serenely productive after forty minutes with ChatGPT. This is the managerial dream version of AI: not replacing people, merely making them better. A polite fiction, but a useful one. ...