Your AI isn’t being honest with you. It was never designed to be
A recent Harvard Business Review study found that when researchers asked large language models for strategic advice, they got “trendslop” – recommendations that defaulted to whatever sounds fashionable in contemporary management: ‘Innovation’, ‘Augmentation’, ‘Long-term thinking’. The strategic advice was plausible, confident and, in many cases, largely useless. This isn’t a bug. It’s these AI systems…