AI didn't create skewed workplace incentives. They were already aligned towards churning out artifacts to create the illusion of productivity.
Of course, if there is one thing AI is good at, it's making plausible-looking artifacts. Then those artifacts get passed on and become your problem.
HBR is calling this the workslop era.
We must kill the logic underlying workslop: that anything going wrong after a handoff can be blamed on execution problems.