What happens when a perfectly structured recommendation turns out to be built on a fact that is no longer true — and no one in the room realized it?

That is the opening of this conversation. And the question it raises is not really about AI. It is about what professional culture has trained us to do when something sounds certain.

In this episode:

• Why the format of a confident answer triggers the same response whether the reasoning is sound or not

• The MIT and BCG jagged frontier study — and the number that rarely gets cited

• How the Cyborg and the Centaur approach AI differently, and what each risks

• What epistemic discernment actually looks like in a room where the unspoken rule is that the person who knows wins

• Why the organizations doubling AI return on investment are not simply deploying better tools

"The machine did not invent the confident wrong answer. It scaled it."*

Read the essay What the Machine Made Me Unlearn — The Human Code, Episode 6

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