#agency

saanyaojha.substack.com · via Saanya Ojha

Meta cut staff, force-reassigned thousands into roles they didn't choose, then tried to patch morale with perks. Ojha's point: AI transitions are won or lost on whether people are treated as participants or disposable resources — the agency argument applied to the adoption itself, not just the tooling.

cutlefish.substack.com · via John Cutler

Cutler on the question every team is now living: how to adopt AI for the company's benefit without quietly trading away the agency that made the team work. The operating-model companion to the agency argument this site keeps circling.

every.to · via Every

A coaching-shaped use of the model: reflection partner, not answer machine. The centaur move applied to inner work.

wired.com · via Wired

The judgment, relationship and timing work doesn't automate away — it becomes the job. Pairs with the glue-work argument.

science.org · via Costello et al, Science

The optimistic counter-case: a well-aimed AI dialogue measurably shifted entrenched beliefs and it held. Agency designed in, not eroded — AI as interlocutor rather than oracle.

linkedin.com · via John Cutler

Sycophancy as the everyday face of cognitive surrender — when the model mirrors you, the verification step quietly disappears. A practical tell for when you've stopped thinking.

oneusefulthing.org · via Ethan Mollick

The two ways to stay in charge of AI work — alternating (centaur) or interweaving (cyborg). The framing this whole site keeps coming back to.

hbs.edu · via HBS / BCG

Field study: people who kept judgment over both what and how (centaurs) were most accurate and upskilled; the self-automators who abdicated stalled.