Peter Drucker's 1963 quote on efficiency resurfaces as a sharp critique of AI in 2026
mattbeane · x · 2026-10-18
A widely shared post quotes Peter Drucker's 1963 line: "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all" — framing it as an eerily apt critique of AI in 2026, where vast effort goes into efficiently automating work that may not be worth doing in the first place.
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