Analysis ·
AI turns verification into a bottleneck for businesses
- Publication
- Harvard Business Review (United States) · subscribers only
- Author
- Christian Catalini
- Published on
- 2 October 2026 · read in the page structured data
Summary
As AI generation of text, media and code becomes abundant and inexpensive, companies need to rethink where value is created, according to the article. Organisational hierarchy does not merely route information: it also verifies what deserves the company's attention and which results can be validated. According to the article, the companies that perform best at this verification rely on two assets: a single ground truth and talent. The article warns that many companies are adopting AI in a way that erodes both assets, and recommends not automating their expertise but retaining control of the "weights" on which their output depends.
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Read the article on Harvard Business Review →Classification
- Country
- Worldwide scope
- Company size
- All sizes
- Industries
- All industries, or industry not specified
- Keywords
- verification, ai adoption, expertise, organisational hierarchy, talent
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