AI Isn't the Problem

Across the association sector, conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) have started to sound eerily familiar. Leaders ask the same questions. Panels deliver the same reassurances. Articles warn that associations will be "left behind" if they do not act and implement AI as the "fix-all" for members' needs. And yet, despite growing awareness and screams of "fire," meaningful adoption remains rare.

Associations don't have an AI problem. They have a decision problem AI is exposing.

This is often framed as caution, fear or lack of expertise. However, that diagnosis misses the real issue. Associations are not stuck on AI because they do not understand the technology. They are stuck because AI has exposed a deeper structural problem: unclear decision rights.

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