Your AI system is generating the briefings, summaries, and forecasts your organization runs on. But how do you know what is real?
In The Perception Problem, Robert F. Geissler delivers a penetrating examination of one of the defining leadership challenges of our era: the growing gap between what AI-generated intelligence tells executives and what is actually happening in their organizations and markets.
Drawing on philosophy, cognitive science, and organizational theory, Geissler identifies five failure modes that AI-mediated information creates — from hallucination at scale and the fluency trap to manufactured consensus and the accountability gap. More importantly, he provides a practical framework for leaders who want to maintain genuine contact with reality: epistemic hygiene protocols, intelligence audit methods, ground-truthing practices, and the habits of the calibrated leader.
This is not an argument against AI. It is an argument for the organizational discipline required to use it wisely — before the map becomes the territory.
The Perception Problem is essential reading for executives, strategists, and anyone responsible for decisions that matter.