William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, or Charles (Charlie) Stross never predicted this!

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Charles Stross, the author ( @cstross ), posted a new blog entry on why high-level executives at companies are pushing "AI" use so strongly onto their workers, even though empirical studies show negative productivity gains:

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/12/barnums-law-of-ceos.html

This may be more or less implied by what he wrote, but I would add that high-level executives aren't as likely to see the "this thing generated an incorrect answer / solution" aspect of "AI" use because being empirically correct is not as important to the things a high-level executive does. It's more important that they make decisions quickly and get things moving rather than making the correct decisions. [1]

Less charitably, top executives can't tell the "AI" is giving wrong answers, because they don't know the right answers.

[1] Of course it would be best for all if they could make the correct decision quickly, but you can't have everything. Where would you keep it?

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Watching United States of Bedlam turning #Trumpland, while reading #charlesstross #thelaundry #labyrinthindex...

What a century, huh?

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Charles David George "Charlie" Stross (born 18 October 1964) is a British writer of science fiction and fantasy. His novel Accelerando won the Locus Award in 2006, and was nominated for the Hugo, Campbell, Clarke, and British Science Fiction Association Awards
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