Analysis
Reported analysis and deeper commentary on the forces changing work.
A Microsoft researcher’s warning surfaced in a publishers’ copyright case. It raises a workplace question that extends beyond the lawsuit: who benefits when human expertise becomes a reusable company asset?
Bain’s marketing research exposes the distance between adopting a tool and improving a business. The dashboard can show activity long before the work produces better results.
The annual self-review was already a writing assignment. AI makes it easier to complete—and harder to confuse a polished answer with evidence of a good year.
Companies are counting the work AI makes disappear. New IBM research suggests they may be paying less attention to the work it creates in its place.
The leaders building the world’s most powerful AI systems increasingly agree that development may be moving too quickly. The difficult part is getting everyone to slow down without being the only company that does.
Spellbook sells AI to help lawyers draft and review contracts. Internally, its CEO would now prefer employees send him the rough version of an idea instead of five pages of AI-polished prose.
An AI-native mortgage company turned off AI for most new hires until they understand the work well enough to challenge the output. The bigger question is what happens when automation removes the work that used to teach people.
Why enterprise AI adoption became a login target—and how to make the tools your company already bought genuinely useful.