The C-Suite Hallucinates Just as Much as AI

By Daniel Rasmus, Serious Insights for Techspective.net | November 26, 2025

In many boardrooms, a dangerous delusion is taking hold. Executives are championing artificial intelligence by painting illusions of a seamless, frictionless future where knowledge workers become instantly more productive, creative, and compliant. In this case, however, it is AI that’s hallucinating, its business executives.

Although we should be concerned about AI systems “hallucinating,” a more consequential form of fabrication thrives in the C-suite: the fantasy that adopting AI will somehow be fast, easy, and immune to the messy realities of human organizations.

The Instant Impact Delusion

Executives see Microsoft’s Copilot or Salesforce’s Agentforce and conjure a future where knowledge workers instantly become more productive. They imagine AI agents summarizing meetings, drafting emails, generating content, even managing suites of agents with the same ease as rolling out a new laptop or switching to cloud email.

To better understand why Rasmus claims C-Suites across the globe are ‘hallucinating’, dive deep into the full article: The C-Suite Hallucinates Just as Much as AI.

About the Author:

Daniel W. Rasmus, the author of Listening to the Future, is a strategist and industry analyst who has helped clients put their future in context. Rasmus uses scenarios to analyze trends in society, technology, economics, the environment, and politics in order to discover implications used to develop and refine products, services, and experiences. He leverages this work and methodology for content development, workshops, and for professional development.

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