AI and the Crisis of Control: How Leaders Can Reclaim Responsibility in the Age of AI

Artificial intelligence now shapes decisions once guided by human judgment—and in the

process, responsibility is quietly disappearing. As AI systems spread through organizations

and institutions, leaders find themselves surrounded by power they can neither fully see

nor clearly answer for.

In AI and the Crisis of Control, Russell E. Willis argues that the central challenge of AI is not

runaway machines or malicious intent, but the erosion of human agency inside complex

systems. When decisions are...