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EPISODE · Mar 17, 2026 · 51 MIN

Machines and Menschen #2 - Why AI Speed Is the New Risk Nobody is Managing

from Machines and Menschen - Value In A Post-AI World · host Jan Sebastian Steffen und Maxim Osipovs

McKinsey built an AI tool so central to their business that 45,000 employees couldn't work without it. Then it got hacked — not by a sophisticated AI exploit, but by a 25-year-old SQL injection that any junior developer should have caught. But in AI accelerated times, no one is hiring junior developers.In this episode, we make the case that the biggest risk AI introduces isn't hallucinations, bias, or job displacement, but the organizational pressure to move so fast that the basics stop happening. We also get into: why firing junior employees to save costs might be quietly killing your senior talent pipeline, what the leaked EU Inc. draft actually says — and why it disappointed every startup founder who was counting on it, and why the US and Europe aren't just moving at different speeds, they have fundamentally different relationships with failure.

McKinsey built an AI tool so central to their business that 45,000 employees couldn't work without it. Then it got hacked — not by a sophisticated AI exploit, but by a 25-year-old SQL injection that any junior developer should have caught. But in AI accelerated times, no one is hiring junior developers.In this episode, we make the case that the biggest risk AI introduces isn't hallucinations, bias, or job displacement, but the organizational pressure to move so fast that the basics stop happening. We also get into: why firing junior employees to save costs might be quietly killing your senior talent pipeline, what the leaked EU Inc. draft actually says — and why it disappointed every startup founder who was counting on it, and why the US and Europe aren't just moving at different speeds, they have fundamentally different relationships with failure.

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