"Here's a truth from physics that should concern every executive racing toward AI dominance: speed tells you how fast you're moving. Velocity tells you how fast you're moving - and in which direction. A car travelling at 100 mph in circles has tremendous speed but zero velocity. It goes nowhere. It only burns fuel, overheats the engine, and eventually becomes a hazard to everything nearby."
"Sam Altman reportedly issued an internal "code red" at OpenAI in December 2025 - an emergency directive to focus resources on improving ChatGPT whilst delaying initiatives like advertising or Pulse triggered by Google's launch of Gemini 3. The flagship product that triggered the current AI frenzy, deployed to hundreds of millions of users, needed an internal alarm bell. Not because it had fundamentally failed."
Executives pursuing AI dominance confuse motion with progress by measuring speed rather than directional velocity. High release frequency, larger models, funding rounds and benchmark wins indicate acceleration without strategic goals. A product can require urgent consolidation despite widespread deployment, as internal directives to refocus resources show when competition pressures trigger short-term pivots. Researchers identified an AI race lacking definition or aspirational aims, yet organizations perpetuate a narrative of winning without finish lines. When steering disappears, shipping becomes the strategy and initiatives proceed because they can be built, not because they serve a coherent direction, increasing operational risk and inefficiency.
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