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What would Munger say before we automate this workflow?

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Charlie Munger
Management judgment
Insight

The expert answer starts with incentives. If the system rewards the wrong behavior, AI will make the wrong behavior cheaper, faster, and harder to notice.

Automation often hides incentive problems. Munger-style analysis starts by asking what the system is rewarding.

The question

Before adding AI to a workflow, which incentives would Charlie Munger, Drucker, and Graham inspect first?

Why now

Teams are adding AI to broken workflows instead of fixing why people avoid the workflow.