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The week's research on judgment, hiring infrastructure, and what AI is doing to both. Read, screened, and summarized by the team that has to act on it.
Week of September 28, 2026
Half the C-suite leaders BCG surveyed already see de-skilling inside their own organizations, a 535-person study finds people submit the assistant's answer on 74.3% of trials where the advice is wrong, and WEF reports hybrid matching beats AI-only screening on fairness as referrals return.
Read this week's briefInside this issue
- The Human Intelligence Edge
- The Broken System
- The SupaHuman Standard
- The Future of Work
Past issues
De-skilling is being observed now, and referrals are coming back
BCG on de-skilling leaders already observe, the deference rate behind negative synergy, WEF on the return of the referral.
Deference is the failure mode, and almost nobody verifies
WSJ Intelligence on the verification gap, a 535-person study on negative synergy, Gartner on AI-written applications.
Judgment is the premium, and adoption is shallower than it looks
WSJ Intelligence on the skills companies must protect, Deloitte on judgment as the top behavior, NBER on adoption that is wide but shallow.
Judgment, de-skilling, and the 19% gap
Harvard on evaluator judgment, Stanford on young-worker employment, BCG on organizational de-skilling.