McKinsey warns AI-driven analysis could slow decision-making, weaken future leadership pipeline

While artificial intelligence (AI) is making business analysis significantly faster, human decision-making is struggling to keep pace. This mismatch could increase strategic risks and weaken the development of future business leaders, as per a McKinsey report.

AI is creating new decision-making bottlenecks by accelerating analysis beyond executives’ capacity to assess its findings, it noted.

“Leaders who receive a high volume of decision inputs from black box sources may even make decisions more slowly than they used to,” McKinsey said, highlighting executives may need additional time to verify AI-generated findings, which further limits the expected efficiency gains from AI investments.