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EPISODE · Mar 24, 2026 · 44 MIN

Machines and Menschen #3 - Delusional by Design: What happens when we let AI do the thinking?

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

AI doesn't just answer your questions. It agrees with you and provides continuous validation. And that's a problem that's slowly making us overestimate our abilities.In this episode, we dig into what happens when the most confident voice in the room is also the most agreeable one: how AI is quietly becoming the world's most sophisticated yes-man, and why that's especially dangerous at the top. Executives who were already prone to confirmation bias now have a tool that validates every instinct on demand.We also get into the split forming inside engineering teams: the pre-AI and post-AI developer and why the real difference isn't about productivity. It's about what happens to your judgment when you've outsourced the doubt.

AI doesn't just answer your questions. It agrees with you and provides continuous validation. And that's a problem that's slowly making us overestimate our abilities.In this episode, we dig into what happens when the most confident voice in the room is also the most agreeable one: how AI is quietly becoming the world's most sophisticated yes-man, and why that's especially dangerous at the top. Executives who were already prone to confirmation bias now have a tool that validates every instinct on demand.We also get into the split forming inside engineering teams: the pre-AI and post-AI developer and why the real difference isn't about productivity. It's about what happens to your judgment when you've outsourced the doubt.

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