AI-Obsessed Executives Are Creating Toxic Workplaces by Replacing Human Judgment with ChatGPT
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Maggie Harrison Dupré
Summary
A growing trend of AI-obsessed executives is creating toxic work environments where managers use ChatGPT and other AI tools to make decisions, generate communications, and even determine who to fire. Workers report nonsensical directives, mandatory AI consultation before any communication, and a culture where AI-generated output is valued over human judgment. The article explores how this obsession with AI is degrading workplace culture, leading to absurd situations like AI-written performance reviews and AI-dictated hiring/firing decisions, with employees feeling powerless as their bosses defer critical thinking to language models.
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· 3 pulledHe called a company-wide meeting to announce that from then on, we had to discuss with the AI prior to all meetings or before communicating with him, because if we didn't develop and discuss our ideas with the AI first, it was a sign that we didn't care about our jobs.
It's like having a boss who's having a psychotic break, except the hallucination is being fed by a chatbot.
The worst part is that you can't argue with the AI's decision because the boss treats it as an infallible oracle. It's not just bad management — it's a complete abdication of responsibility.
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