According to @emollick, The Economist By Invitation essay argues companies should not "de-weird" generative AI by forcing it into traditional IT automation workflows, because emergent behavior, probabilistic outputs, and rapid model shifts demand experimentation-oriented governance, new KPIs, and human-in-the-loop controls (as reported by The Economist, April 1, 2026). According to The Economist, organizations that over-standardize AI as normal software risk lower productivity gains, brittle compliance, and employee pushback, while those piloting frontier-use cases, sandboxing models, and investing in prompt engineering and model evaluation pipelines capture outsized ROI. As reported by The Economist, the piece highlights business opportunities in creating AI product ops, red-teaming, and measurement stacks that track outcome quality, hallucination rates, and user adoption rather than legacy IT uptime metrics.