Your AI use policy is solving the wrong problem

"These kinds of self-defeating attitudes aren't limited to one company-they are endemic across the business world. Organizations are being held back because they are importing negative ideas about AI from contexts where they make sense into corporate settings where they don't. The result is a toxic combination of stigma, unhelpful policies, and a fundamental misunderstanding of what actually matters in business. The path forward involves setting aside these confusions and embracing a simpler principle: Artificial intelligence should be treated like any other powerful business tool."

"In educational contexts, it is entirely appropriate to be suspicious about generative AI. School and college assessments exist for a specific purpose: to demonstrate that students have acquired the skills and the knowledge they are studying. Feeding a prompt into ChatGPT and then handing in the essay it generates undermines the reason for writing the essay in the first place."

Many employees avoid using AI tools because colleagues view AI-assisted work as cheating, fearing reputational harm even when outputs match. Such attitudes are widespread and stem from importing norms from education and other contexts where AI use legitimately undermines skill demonstration. That transfer creates stigma, restrictive policies, and misunderstanding about business priorities. Business performance depends on outcomes and efficient use of tools rather than on individual process purity. Organizations should treat artificial intelligence as a powerful business tool, align policies accordingly, and update governance based on practical use cases and internal research to remove barriers to adoption.

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