The Big Con of Agentic AI

Delegating our thinking to agentic AI creates a dangerous dependency, drawing a parallel to how organizations become over-reliant on management consultants. As individuals and companies increasingly outsource cognitive tasks, they progressively lose the internal expertise required to perform the work or even critically evaluate the AI's output. This forfeiture of human agency leads to a reliance on systems that provide polished but often generic or flawed solutions without any real accountability. While AI can be a powerful tool to augment our abilities, the current trend toward thoughtless delegation threatens to hollow out the very strategic capabilities that define us.