Don’t let AI negotiate with reality
Executive Take
AI can make an impossible plan sound reasonable if you let it invent the answer you want to hear. Keep humans deciding priorities, keep governance deciding who can change them, and let AI only test whether the math actually works.
Executive Summary
A CIO.com opinion piece argues companies increasingly ask AI to weigh in on major business tradeoffs, not just draft text. It cites Accenture data that 95% of firms underwent two-plus transformations in three years, McKinsey data that 40% of executives expect major business model change within three years, and warns AI can produce plausible-sounding answers that satisfy a request rather than prove commitments are actually feasible.
Why It Matters
CTOs and CIOs deploying AI for portfolio or resourcing decisions risk getting confident-sounding recommendations that hide real capacity conflicts. Leaders should demand systems that separate facts, assumptions, and AI interpretation before trusting a recommendation.