The most controversial AI principle: banning full automation on principle kills good solutions
neal_lathia · x · 2026-10-14
neallathia highlights a controversial pattern in enterprise AI governance: principles like "AI will only support our colleagues' expert judgement" effectively exclude full automation on principle. He notes many good resolutions get tabled because of this — a reflection of the assist-vs-automate tension in enterprise AI adoption, where caution reduces risk but can stall high-value use cases indefinitely.
Related event: Corporate AI principles drafted 2-3 years ago now block transformation(3 posts)→
More from AGI Musings
- Danny Boyle defends AI-generated mice in Ink but draws the line at replacing actors — lmoroney · 2026-10-14
- Redditor revisits Spielberg's 2001 A.I. film, says its questions are about to become real — keonakoum · 2026-10-14
- Do AIs face inherent task limits? Chess example tests superintelligence worldview — gleech · 2026-10-14
- "Programming is liberty": dev pushes back on AI labs deciding what software may exist — jbarbier · 2026-10-14
- Nuclear bombs are a misleading analogy for superintelligence, yet fitting — akbirthko · 2026-10-14
- Miles Brundage: stopping AI weight theft should be the top AI policy priority — Miles_Brundage · 2026-10-14