HR Technology Strategy
George Orwell's 1984 Communication Loop.
AI now writes the emails nobody wanted to write and summarizes the emails nobody wanted to read. The result isn't efficiency. It's a closed loop of performative communication where machines talk to machines and humans pretend they're involved. The organizations that break this cycle won't be the ones with better AI tools. They'll be the ones brave enough to ask why the email existed in the first place.
March 12, 2026 15 min read