AI futures analysis
Forecast Audit: workflow debt check for May 8
A recurring audit of where AI adoption creates hidden maintenance instead of clean leverage.
Workflow debt appears when a faster process leaves more unresolved judgment behind it.
The early signal is not chaos. It is a quiet increase in exception handling: more edge cases, more review disputes, more people asking whether the system's output counts as a decision or a suggestion.
The audit question: did automation reduce work, move work, or make work harder to locate?
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