# TBM 425: AI and Agency

DevFeed: [TBM 425: AI and Agency](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/tbm-425-ai-and-agency-40051.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-425-ai-and-agency>)

Author: John Cutler

Published: 2026-06-07T23:19:08Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [The Beautiful Mess](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-beautiful-mess.md>)

Topics: [AI Strategy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-strategy.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [trust](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/trust.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-adoption](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-adoption.md>), [leadership](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leadership.md>), [organizational](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organizational.md>), [trust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/trust.md>)

## AI overview

This commentary argues that companies' approaches to AI adoption can undermine employee agency, trust, and dignity. It presents resistance to mandates as a potentially rational response to organizational conditions and argues that employees should be able to learn how AI fits their work on their own terms.

## Source excerpt

So you want your team to figure out how to use AI for the benefit of your company?