{"id":3304,"date":"2025-10-07T14:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T12:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=3304"},"modified":"2025-10-07T14:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T12:26:07","slug":"will-ai-destroy-consulting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2025\/10\/07\/will-ai-destroy-consulting\/","title":{"rendered":"Will AI Destroy Consulting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AI Rule no. 1: Cynical writers use AI.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-3305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Deloitte-412x600.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Deloitte-412x600.webp 412w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Deloitte-450x656.webp 450w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Deloitte-103x150.webp 103w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Deloitte-768x1119.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Deloitte-1054x1536.webp 1054w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Deloitte.webp 1062w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 85vw, 190px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Will AI destroy consulting firms? I enjoy <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/10\/deloitte-will-refund-australian-government-for-ai-hallucination-filled-report\/\">this story<\/a> where Deloitte have admitted that their report on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250905115547\/https:\/\/www.dewr.gov.au\/download\/17099\/targeted-compliance-framework-assurance-review-final-report\/40749\/targeted-compliance-framework-independent-review-final-report\/pdf\">Targeted Compliance Framework Assurance Review<\/a>&#8221; for the Australian government was written partly by AI.<\/p>\n<p>Long consulting reports are likely the most cynical and vacuous writing there is, so of course AI will be used.<\/p>\n<p>But I sincerely wonder what this will do to consulting? Will it mean that CEOs will just use AIs for their reporting? Why would anyone pay millions for work\/AI slop?<\/p>\n<p>Or is it, just as likely, that consulting firms will charge even higher fees for their special human touch (still written by AI)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Rule no. 1: Cynical writers use AI. Will AI destroy consulting firms? I enjoy this story where Deloitte have admitted that their report on &#8220;Targeted Compliance Framework Assurance Review&#8221; for the Australian government was written partly by AI. Long consulting reports are likely the most cynical and vacuous writing there is, so of course &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2025\/10\/07\/will-ai-destroy-consulting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Will AI Destroy Consulting?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3306,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions\/3306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}