2/10. If in your company sensitive data is entrusted to an LLM, if autonomous agents invade your environment, or if it is AI that writes meeting minutes, run away!
Imagine for a moment that you observe one of these three practices in your work environment. Or that you own shares of a company that tolerates them. My advice is simple and clear: flee this blood-red ocean, leave this toxic job if you can, sell your shares before you lose everything. These three signals don’t lie. They indicate that an organization is losing its soul, its governance and, ultimately, its real value.
1. Entrust personal, confidential or protected data to an external LLM
It is the first silent poison. An employee sends a sensitive contract, management data, HR exchanges or a creative document protected by copyright to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. “It’s faster,” they say. In reality, it’s a ticking time bomb.
The company that lets things happen destroys the trust that customers, employees and shareholders place in it. Data leaks to servers over which it has no control. Governance is shifting: it is no longer the managers who decide, it is the conditions of use of a Californian service provider. The value of the company erodes. Reputation too.
Serious companies don’t just “raise awareness.” They apply clear and proportionate sanction mechanisms. Because tolerating this means accepting that the tool becomes more important than trust. This is an admission of strategic weakness. The markets harshly punish this type of negligence.
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2. Let an autonomous agent decide without real human supervision
This is the most dangerous temptation, especially for financial departments. Replacing a human with a machine makes it possible to reduce payroll while “managing more shareholder value”. On paper, it’s very attractive from their point of view. In reality, it is an economic and moral trap.
Economically, everything a machine does can be reproduced, improved or circumvented by another competing machine. Competitive advantage evaporates. Morally, it is even more serious. As François Dupuy analyzes in Lost in Management, we have been processing decisions for decades: KPIs, procedures, algorithms. We dilute responsibility until it disappears.
It is the banality of evil in a technological version. The machine has no conscience, no ethics, no humanity. It optimizes an objective. Point.
Here are four real cases:
- Robodebt in Australia (2016-2019): automated system pursued hundreds of thousands of vulnerable citizens with fake debts. Suicides followed. No one had really looked at it case by case.
- The welfare affair in the Netherlands (Toeslagenaffaires, 2013-2021): an algorithm has ruined tens of thousands of families. The government resigned.
- Amazon’s recruitment tool (abandoned in 2018): it discriminated against women without a human really intervening.
- Look at the Air Canada chatbot (2024): it invented a pricing policy. The company was condemned.
Each time, the lack of human judgment has turned a tool into a disaster.
3. Delegate the writing of meeting minutes to the AI
This is perhaps the most insidious signal, because it seems innocuous.
At the beginning, we politely ask for permission to record the meeting “to help with the synthesis.” Then it becomes the norm and we no longer ask. Then surveillance extends to all against all. One day, what you said in a hallway or in the bathroom is analyzed, contextualized and used against you. Only those who have no choice will remain in such an environment. The talents will leave.
But there is something deeper. A report is never objective. It is the fruit of choice: what we keep, what we minimize, what we highlight. Writing a report is exposing yourself. It means assuming one’s point of view, one’s sensitivity, one’s understanding of human dynamics. It is an act of commitment to the group.
When a company accepts that the judgment of its employees can be replaced by a machine, it sends a clear message: your human gaze is no longer necessary. From then on, all work will become mediocre. Because the machine only sees averages. It misses the subtleties, the unsaid, the creative tensions, the emerging opportunities, the trends that do not yet have massive data.
The company that delegates this produces average, standardized, soulless work. Just like his machines.
If you see these three practices taking hold, don’t delude yourself. This is not a modernization. It is a progressive capitulation of the human before the tool. It is the slow loss of what makes the true value of an organization: judgment, responsibility, trust, subtlety.
AI is a wonderful tool. But she should never become the silent boss. Nor the judge. Nor collective memory.
Keep your hand. Or leave.
