Your Model May Have Feelings. You Have Responsibilities.
AI welfare remains uncertain. Business leaders and policymakers should set proportionate standards for AI treatment, testing and accountability now.
Author: Jonathan
The Cost of What Never Gets Written
AI-assisted writing can bring overlooked knowledge into public debate. Its social value depends on whether institutions preserve that knowledge and use it to co...
What Did Your Last AI Project Make Possible?
Part 1 of The Autocatalytic Enterprise Series. How AI implementations build reusable capability—and a practical review to establish what your last AI project ma...
Your Company Is Buying AI. Is It Learning How to Think?
Companies are buying AI faster than they are learning how to invest in it. The important return is not only what an initiative delivers today, but what it makes...
The Leadership Attention Paradox
“The manager’s job is characterized by brevity, variety, and fragmentation.” — Henry Mintzberg, The Nature of Managerial Work (1973) At the time, this was an ob...
The Long Road to the Threshold
1. Novelty Is Usually a Disguise Most technology ideas arrive in the world disguised as novelty. They are announced as rupture. As invention. As the sudden appe...
Beyond the Codex Moment
In my previous post, I described what I called my “CODEX moment”: the realization that the capabilities of agentic engineering tools have crossed a threshold. F...
Zombie Governance
An institution can perform well while becoming harder to govern. Zombie Governance examines where judgment and accountability reside when automated decisions se...
Five keys to a modern operating model
Ask a dozen consultants what the term “digital transformation” means and you’ll likely get a dozen different answers. The term has become so overused and so lac...
Is there a ‘can’ in your future?
In the economics of computing the most expensive resource is still the network. In scenarios where large data-sets are being processed it is almost always cheap...