🦔 A survey of 200 UK executives found that 62% now use AI to make the majority of their decisions, including 27% who use it for hiring and firing. About 70% say they second-guess their own instincts if they conflict with AI recommendations, and 46% say they rely more on AI than advice from colleagues. The study also found 59% of executives frequently rely on gut instinct because 60% say data is hard to access and 71% say information is outdated by the time it reaches them. My Take Executives are turning to AI because they don't have time to analyze data, but analyzing data and making decisions is arguably the main thing they're paid to do. If 62% of your decisions are being made by AI and you trust it more than your own judgment or your colleagues, it's worth asking what exactly you're contributing. 27% are using AI to hire and fire, which is concerning. These are life-altering choices for the people on the other end, and they're being influenced by systems that can't understand context, culture fit, or the dozen intangible factors that matter in personnel decisions. The same executives who say they lack reliable data are feeding that same unreliable data into AI tools and trusting the output more than their own read on the situation. I'm also skeptical of any study commissioned by a data infrastructure company finding that executives need better data infrastructure, but even setting that aside, the picture here is bleak. Leaders who don't trust their own judgment, don't have time to think, and are outsourcing the hard calls to a probabilistic text generator. Hedgie🤗