AI Outside the Organizational Chart The Legitimacy Gap Delaying Funding and Reshaping the Future of Companies

An article by Founder CEO Setaleur Momen Ghazouani examines the current legitimacy gap surrounding the perception of Artificial Intelligence in the business world particularly among investors Ghazouani argues that while AI systems often function as high-performing team members outperforming humans in some tasks they are not counted as legitimate parts of the organizational structure leading to skepticism during funding pitches The source traces this psychological resistance to the adoption of past technologies like CAD software and spreadsheets, predicting that history shows AI will eventually be normalized as essential infrastructure Ultimately Ghazouani predicts that as AI capabilities improve and a new generation of leaders accepts them the debate will shift from whether AI counts as a team member to how organizations should be redesigned to effectively incorporate these advanced, often superhuman collaborators