Maslow's hammer (1966):
"it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."

Maslow's AI (2026):
"it is tempting, if the only tool you have is an AI, to treat everything as if it were a prompt."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument

#AI #MaslowsHammer #LawOfTheInstrument

“Don’t do this,” I said to the director. “Once you have this information, you’ll have to do something about it.”
[...]
No, she was a fine and energetic professional. She had simply done something I’d seen too many times before: she had succumbed to the fever of the system. As a product manager once told me, “I’ve never seen anyone with two systems who didn’t want us to hook them together.”

– Ellen Uhlmann, Close to the Machine

#lawoftheinstrument