The Coming Collapse of Corporate Knowledge: How AI Is Eating Its Own Brain

By Michael IantoscaSenior Director of Knowledge Platforms and Content Engineering“We are building machines that learn from us, then firing the humans who know and validate how the world actually works.”The Greatest Threat to AIThe greatest threat to artificial intelligence and every AI-driven business initiative is not bias, regulation, or even adoption. It is obsolete, incorrect, and incomplete content; the decaying foundation on which most large language models and local vector stores are built. Knowledge evolves every day, yet most AI systems are trained on poorly managed, often dangerously outdated snapshots of a moving world. Without systems thinking, content operations, and continuous human curation, the very intelligence we celebrate today is already eroding beneath us.