AI Doesn't Fail Because of Technology, It Fails When Humans Misunderstand Each Other |
As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in nearly every industry, much of the public conversation has focused on speed, efficiency, and automation. But beneath the headlines about smarter systems and changing workflows lies a quieter and more consequential challenge. The friction slowing progress is often not the technology itself, but how people understand, frame, and communicate around it.
Many of the world's most complex problems do have technical dimensions. What ultimately determines success, however, is how effectively those technical realities are interpreted, translated, and aligned across people. AI does not remove that requirement. In many cases, it intensifies it.
AI is extraordinarily powerful, but it does not exist in a vacuum. It sits at the intersection of people who think in very different ways: engineers, business leaders, lawyers, artists, policymakers, and operators. Each group brings its own language, assumptions, and priorities. When those groups fail to understand one another, even the most advanced tools fall short.
This is already visible across the modern business environment, where the terrain is shifting........