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When your company rolls out a strategic plan, it is making a bet on the future; a particular future. Given that this strategy will inevitably come with investments in new & different technologies, a focus on particular customer demographics, a perspective on the economy or geo-political stability or instability, targets on which companies to buy or which lines of business to divest. The monetary resources to enact a strategic plan are easily calculated, but another key reso

In a previous post (Strategic Planning or Strategic Blindness) I wrote about the dual effects of the Situation Awareness degradation factor, attentional tunneling, and confirmation bias. I described how these two forces, acting in concert, can put blinders on the organization around the point of view about the future expressed in the strategic plan. In this post I’ll describe several other situation awareness degradation factors and how they show up at the organization leve

The AI alignment issue, according to the AI fatalists like Eliezer Yudkowsky, postulates that a super intelligent Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) whose values are not aligned with those of humanity could have goals that are antithetical to human life on earth. The risk, they say is just too great, to allow AGI development to proceed ungoverned, or at all. There are many paths to destruction, including designing a super virus, to convincing gullible humans to give it a

In another post I discussed how every organization using AI, Agentic AI and LLM’s could find themselves in a situation where the autonomous AI agent, LLM or chatbot is making decisions that erode brand equity. On April 28, INC reported a case where an autonomous AI agent wiped out data. “The AI agent was performing a routine task for the company when it encountered a problem and autonomously decided to delete an entire database and three month’s worth of backups.” “It took