Who gets to decide about AI? #ai #elonmusk #water #datacenters

Who gets to decide about AI? #ai #elonmusk #water #datacenters David Michael Boje PhD, is one of the top three organizational storytelling researchers and theorists in the world. We are currently living through a profound contradiction. In our homes, schools, and offices, we adopt generative AI tools at the fastest rate in technological history. Yet, simultaneously, our trust in the institutions building these tools has collapsed. This is the AI Trust Paradox: a state where usage does not equal confidence, and where the "inevitability" of a technology is used to mask the absence of any real option to refuse it. To understand this industry, we must look past the polished press releases and enter Tamaraland. Conceived by Dr. David Boje, Tamaraland is a sprawling organizational mansion where conflicting realities occur in separate, glass-walled rooms simultaneously. In the "front parlor," executives narrate a "Beginning-Middle-End" (BME) myth—a fossilized grand narrative where a hero-leader conquers a market and arrives at a state of grace. But behind these synthetic barriers are the antenarratives: the raw, messy, high-stakes bets on a future that leaders cannot yet control. This post pulls back the veneer to look at the "unapproved transformation" happening in the rooms the PR reports ignore. Takeaway 1: The "Invisible Architects" Deciding Your Future While public scrutiny is fixed on "Model Builders" like OpenAI or Anthropic, the actual impact of AI on your life is determined by the Enterprise Layer. These are the "Invisible Architects"—massive consulting firms like Accenture, Deloitte, IBM, and SAP—who sit "between the model and the moment." For more, see Storying.site davidboje.com antenarrative.com enthinkment.com for weekly Tuesday meeting on proton meet Facebook:   / drdavidmbojephd   YouTube:    / davidboje     / davidboje   Instagram   / davidbojephd   https://x.com/boje_david See book on AI Data Centers at storying.site