---
id: "quote-ai-reading-ai"
type: "quote"
source_title: "Don't Let AI Slop Muck Up Your Company's Processes"
source_url: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/dont-let-ai-slop-muck-up-your-companys-processes"
source_timestamps: ["¶5"]
tags: ["employee-mindset", "process-degradation"]
related: ["concept-knowledge-decay"]
speaker: "Hypothetical Employee (cited by Authors)"
speakers: ["Matthias Holweg", "Thomas H. Davenport"]
quote: "If AI is reading what I’m sending, I’ll just use AI to create it."
sources: ["execution"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-execution"
originDay: 8
articleStem: "hbr-sig-54-ai-slop-processes"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/dont-let-ai-slop-muck-up-your-companys-processes"
sourceTitle: "Don’t Let AI Slop Muck Up Your Company’s Processes"
---
# AI Reading AI

> “If AI is reading what I’m sending, I’ll just use AI to create it.”
> — Hypothetical employee, cited by [[entity-matthias-holweg]] and [[entity-thomas-h-davenport]]

This single sentence captures the mindset that drives the 'slopification' of processes: when workers assume the reader is a machine, they abandon quality control and delegate generation to AI. Repeated at every step of a workflow, it produces [[concept-knowledge-decay]] and the compounding failure of [[claim-sequential-ai-degrades-processes]].