AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making

Simon Willison's Weblog is highlighting an essay on how artificial intelligence mania is infiltrating corporate decision-making. The piece recounts an executive at a company with over two billion dollars in revenue who never used ChatGPT, yet produced an entire technical strategy centered on artificial intelligence. In another case, an engineer rewrote their company's code repository in a different language using AI, just to stay employable. The essay's real insight, though, is about incentive structures: when customers are claiming they'll achieve a hundred times greater productivity, vendors who question those promises risk losing contracts. So executives repeat unrealistic AI predictions not out of incompetence, but because skepticism carries career risk and contract loss—making the hype unstoppable.

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