What If AI’s Mistakes Aren’t Bugs, But Features?

We often say AI’s mistakes are "by design," but they’re really not. AI wasn’t built to fail in these specific ways—its errors emerge as a byproduct of how it learns.

But what if we actively use them as a tool instead of just tolerating AI’s weird mistakes or trying to eliminate them?

Here are some unexpected but potentially valuable use cases where treating AI mistakes as a form of bias—rather than just failure—could lead to new insights and innovations.

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Breaking the AI Loop: From Static Thinking to Living Intelligence in Governance and Business

A student recently asked: “How can AI transform the relationships between the U.S. and African countries?” The premise is compelling—AI has the potential to drive transparency, trade, and governance reform, resetting relationships on healthier grounds.

But we’ve seen this movie before.

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The Serviceberry Mindset: How Nature’s Gift Economy Can Reshape Data Governance

For years, we’ve heard that breaking down data silos is the holy grail of business transformation. We’ve been told that better pipelines, integrated analytics, and AI-driven decision-making will finally unlock the full potential of enterprise data. But here’s the question no one seems to ask: What if we’re still thinking too small?

The real challenge isn’t just technological—it’s conceptual. We don’t just need better data governance or cleaner metadata. We need a way of thinking that moves beyond technical optimization and into deeper creative problem-solving. That’s where multidisciplinary thinking comes in.

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