Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI

Maggie Harrison Dupré reports on a pattern employees are describing across workplaces: managers who have become dependent on AI chatbots for decisions they used to make with human judgment. Workers recount bosses who prioritize model output over on-the-ground expertise, whipsaw strategy based on chatbot answers, and even lean on AI for surveillance and personnel calls like who to fire. It is a cautionary counterweight to breathless AI adoption, a look at what happens when leaders treat the tool as an oracle rather than an assistant.