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Unmeasured Productivity: AI Investments are Flying Blind AI

Unmeasured Productivity: AI Investments are Flying Blind

Your People Are Already Using AI Microsoft research shows 52% of knowledge workers hide their use or AI from their managers. Data is flowing to external systems without governance. Contracts are being drafted, code is being written and emails are being sent through tools your IT department

Dan Ilett · 6 min read min read
The Agents Working Against You AI

The Agents Working Against You

We have entered what the industry is calling the "Agentic Wars." In December 2025, Meta paid over $2 billion to acquire Manus, a nine-month-old startup that had built something Silicon Valley now considers essential: an AI that doesn't just talk, but acts. ChatGPT and its peers answer

Dan Ilett · 4 min read min read
Change Bullies: Using AI to Extract Gatekeepers to Progress AI

Change Bullies: Using AI to Extract Gatekeepers to Progress

Let's say one exec stakes their career on building the company's future on one tech vendor. Massive budgets are spent. Three years later, it's obviously wrong. But that person can't allow change because it means admitting failure. So the entire organisation slows down. Months are lost in

Dan Ilett · 4 min read min read
Cheating, Doorbells and AI-Made Bio Viruses AI

Cheating, Doorbells and AI-Made Bio Viruses

People cheat more with AI A study in Scientific American showed users were more likely to cheat on tasks when assisted by AI. The effect was strongest when instructions were unclear. Generative AI’s climate costs hit front page MIT flagged rising emissions from foundation model use. The

Dan Ilett · 1 min read min read
Futile Resistance, Shutdown Gobsmack and Bumbled Guardrails AI

Futile Resistance, Shutdown Gobsmack and Bumbled Guardrails

DeepMind has redrawn the threat map. In a new update to its Frontier Safety Framework, the UK-based lab now ranks “harmful manipulation” and “shutdown resistance” as core risks. That means models that change your beliefs - or refuse to turn off- are no longer sci-fi. The change matters

Dan Ilett · 2 min read min read
The AI Roundup AI

The AI Roundup

Good morning I recently coached an exec team who wanted more updates on how companies are responding to AI challenges. Here's the latest: The White House is finalising a “Winning the AI Race” plan to push US AI overseas and block federal funding in states with restrictive AI laws. It leans

Dan Ilett · 3 min read min read
From Pilot to Pause: Why GenAI is Stalling AI

From Pilot to Pause: Why GenAI is Stalling

Gartner expects that 30 percent of GenAI projects will be abandoned by the end of this year. Why? Because the fundamentals don’t hold up. Poor data quality. Loose risk frameworks. Sky-high costs and unclear outcomes. Some companies are spending up to $20 million just to test something they

Dan Ilett · 1 min read min read
Scary: If you read one thing today, make it this... AI

Scary: If you read one thing today, make it this...

ChatGPT: "AI is unlikely to "seize" control in a dramatic coup—it will gradually take over because it’s better, faster, and more reliable than humans in many domains. AI will effectively control large parts of human life through necessity, dependency, and influence."

Dan Ilett · 57 min read min read