[michaelteter]

The problem is not AI. The problem is still very human: the humans in charge don’t know what they don’t know, and they believe that whatever they imagine is true.

They also often believe that anything they can think of must be easy - just a matter of a worker spending a little time. Or maybe an AI can do it.

Management rarely learns from group failures, because they naturally assume that since the project was “easy”, it must be a problem with the workers.

CEOs routines run companies into the ground and the switch to a new company, fist full of cash on the way out. Once in a while, one of those repeat failures ascends into politics.

[cineticdaffodil]

Its the "Lets invade russia in winter" moment of the mbas.

[TheOtherHobbes]

The whole point of social media/Web 2.0/ad tech is to create and propagate these illusions, because it's more profitable to confuse, manipulate, and distract humans than to educate, inform, and communicate with honesty and integrity.

So we've ended up with a low SNR culture where everything is noisy, nothing is real, and trends and fads created by grifters are more important than reality.

Obviously, this won't end well in any of the many different ways it's playing out.