If a Human-Al Organization fell in a deserted forest, would it make a noise?
David Oxley
February 20, 2026
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Part of the problem with talking about the Human–AI organization is that it does not actually exist. Not really. Not yet.
We can point to lots of impressive uses of technology. Elon Musk has factories full of robots. Amazon is experimenting with drone deliveries. Netflix has been letting algorithms decide what we watch for years. All of this matters. All of it is interesting. But none of it, in my view, represents a true Human–AI organization.
“Using AI is not the same thing as being an AI-native organization.”
To claim otherwise would be like saying IBM represented the human and personal computer organization of the 1980s, or Microsoft the human and software organization of the 1990s. They did not. They enabled something new, something powerful, but they were not the end state.
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