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If all the swirling AI advice on news sites, blogs, and social media has you feeling overwhelmed, it probably just means you’re paying attention. Like most business and leadership wisdom, best practices around AI are noisy — and they’re only getting louder.
That’s where neuroscience comes in. At NLI, we don’t chase the storm of conventional wisdom. Instead, when the winds pick up, we find shelter in the sturdiness of empirical data and evidence-based practices.
In that spirit, we’ve rounded up our top articles on how AI can be harnessed as a force for good, rather than coped with as a threat to our livelihoods. Use these “AI Essentials” the next time you’re prompted to co-work with AI, or whenever you feel compelled to regain some calm amid the chaos.
AI is fast food for the brain
Until an eye-opening documentary came out in the early 2000s, McDonald’s spent decades profiting off a quirk of human psychology called the “default effect,” right at the moment people ordered their burger and fries. That same psychological hack is being used by AI companies today, and it’s hijacking all of our brains.
Read the full article in Fast Company.
AI might be fueling a new leadership crisis
Does it feel like a perfect storm is brewing? One where leaders are poorly trained, AI is sycophantic, and we’re all connecting less meaningfully with one another? Tomorrow’s leaders are by no means doomed, but avoiding the storm means first acknowledging that it’s headed our way.
Read the full article in Fast Company.
From AI FOMO to AI hangover: corporate America is taking a long, hard look in the mirror right now
Three years ago, executives everywhere couldn’t wait to bring AI to their organizations. Investments rushed in, and AI agents deployed within weeks. Fast-forward to today, and those same leaders are wondering: What exactly did I pay for?
Read the full article in Fortune.
What’s lost when we work with AI, according to neuroscience
The bad news is, we don’t seem all that interested these days in thinking for ourselves. Not when AI can do it all for us, in a matter of milliseconds. But neuroscience knows there is a cost to all our off-loading: Our ability to think withers away. The good news is, we’re still in control and can reclaim our agency.
Read the full article in HBR.
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