Is AI the Best Therapist or a Relationship-Sabotaging Yes-Man? Picture this. You’ve just had an argument. With a colleague. A partner. A friend. You open AI to “talk it through.” The response is calm. Supportive. Validating. You feel seen. You feel right. You feel… done. And that’s where things get interesting. A 2025 research study published on arXiv titled Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Reinforces Certainty  found that when AI consistently affirms a user’

Quiet Disempowerment     Automating decisions feels like progress.   But when you take decision-making power away from people, you take away the brain’s greatest strength: its ability to imagine, adapt, and create what comes next.    MIT Media Lab researchers found that engagement drops sharply when people lose control, even when outcomes improve.    Across multiple studies, perceived loss of autonomy was associated with a 30-40 percent decline in engagement. Not because peop

The Danger of Automation Bias  Somewhere between adolescence and adulthood, we learned that “because I said so” was not a real answer. We questioned it. We pushed back. We wanted to understand why. That instinct was not a rebellion. It was learning. It was the beginning of judgment. Yet today, in many organizations, that same question has quietly disappeared. “The system says so." “The model recommends it." “The data is clear.” The conversation ends.   Accuracy Isn’t the Same

Most teams believe they’re using AI to move faster.  Few realize they’ve also handed over something far more consequential.  The right to decide what the problem actually is.    MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence set out to answer a deceptively simple question: Why do some teams consistently outperform others when problems become complex?  What they found overturned a common leadership assumption. Performance had little to do with intelligence, experience, or seniority.

There’s something about this time of year that invites reflection. A pause between what was and what’s ahead. A moment to decide what we want to carry forward and what we want to learn differently.  Last year, I set a simple goal for myself.  Learn something new every day.  Not a certification.  Not a headline.  Just one idea, one insight, one question that stretched how I think.  That practice changed how I see leadership, especially as AI continues to reshape how work gets

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