“he [Dorsey] argued that corporate hierarchy has always existed to solve one problem — routing information through organizations too large for any single person to oversee — and that AI now does that job better than people do.”
https://officechai.com/ai/ai-will-enable-all-6000-block-employees-to-report-to-me-ceo-jack-dorsey/
That’s a dangerous misconception… (though widespread…)…
A more useful view: organizations have (intentional, to ensure attention) scopes of complexity and timespan of decision making
They are integration scopes. Scopes of responsibility, capability building, risk management, navigation and resilience.
They aren’t merely (resource and) information gates and conduits (though they may be used that way, as power moves)…
Scopes of responsibility are (or ought to be) about (organizational) self-regulation… which is work.
Noting:
The real "human in the loop" would be for the assignment of accountability lol, I find it absolutely bananas how many traditionally risk averse organisations have embraced this stuff without meaningful guardrails, but I do believe the legal shit, compliance, risk management etc will be the thing that enforces some regulation of these practices rather than the quality or reliability of the output itself
"No management hierarchy (at all)" could make a lot of sense and be highly productive and successful …
… IF it were based on empowering individuals and groups to self-organize.
…
But that, of course, is *NOT anything like* what he (and others) are implementing — replacing ineffective bureaucratic middle management humans with the "slop machine" that consistently makes everything much worse.
He's eliminating all possibility of improvement or effectiveness.
Ruth — of systems & design
Jeff Grigg