AI adoption outrunning organizational judgment — the control problem¶
Insight: Ovetta Sampson (ex-Google, Microsoft, IDEO, Capital One — named one of Business Insider's Top 15 in Enterprise AI) argues that AI was supposed to help humans think and decide better, but many feel slower, less confident, and "strangely replaceable." Frictionless tools displaced intention, "freedom" was confused with unlimited capability, and responsibility dissolved behind abstraction layers and vendors. The core warning: adoption outrunning judgment is not abstract risk — teams are already feeling consequences through bloated tool stacks and loss of product control.
Detail: Not an anti-AI conversation but a reckoning with what happens when speed stops being an advantage, frontier models become a liability, and ownership matters once products scale. Key question: what happens when you don't control your AI?