The proposal looked great.<\/p>\n
It was polished, professional and exactly the kind of document that makes a business look like it has everything under control.<\/p>\n
Then the client called.<\/p>\n
The market research cited in section two, the statistics that anchored the entire recommendation, didn\u2019t exist. The AI had made them up. Not vaguely, not accidentally, but confidently and in detail.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a name for this. It\u2019s called a hallucination and it happens when you hand a capable, enthusiastic, completely unsupervised tool access to your work and assume it will figure things out.<\/p>\n
Sound familiar?<\/em><\/p>\n The intern nobody onboarded<\/strong><\/p>\n Imagine hiring an intern and on day one handing them access to everything.<\/p>\n Your client files. Your email drafts. Your financial summaries. Your internal documents.<\/p>\n \u201cJust figure it out. Let me know if you need anything.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n No orientation. No guardrails. No check-ins.<\/p>\n That\u2019s how many businesses are adopting AI right now.<\/p>\n Not because they\u2019re reckless. In fact, it\u2019s the opposite. AI tools are genuinely useful, easy to access and already built into the software people use every day. There\u2019s an AI button in your email, another one in your document editor and yet another one in your project management tool. It feels like help has arrived.<\/p>\n And in many ways, it has.<\/p>\n AI is incredibly effective for drafting, summarizing, organizing information and speeding up work that used to take hours. The issue isn\u2019t the tool itself, it\u2019s how it\u2019s being used.<\/p>\n Every application seems to have AI built in now. Not every business has stopped to think about what happens when someone clicks that button.<\/strong><\/p>\n What your unsupervised intern is really up to<\/strong><\/p>\n When AI tools show up without a plan, three things tend to happen.<\/p>\n