When machines seem to think faster than we do, it’s easy to slip into shortcuts. But real learning takes effort. This piece shows why fostering metacognition is now a core leadership skill — and how organisations can stay in control of their thinking to thrive in an AI-driven world.
Written by Jörg Teichgraeber, Hyper Island within the Blekinge AI Lab.

A student in one of our programs recently told me that she had reduced her use of generative AI (GenAI) in her web-development projects. Not because the Copilot made mistakes — but because it made her feel stupid.
She immediately clarified that of course she knows it is merely a system running advanced probability calculations and only mimics human thinking. Yet despite knowing this, she found it hard not to feel inferior — because the machine seemed smarter, faster and more capable than she was.
Her reaction points to something deeper happening in today’s learning institutions as well as workplaces. The German philosopher Günther Anders called this Promethean shame: the discomfort we feel when our own technological creations outperform us. And with GenAI accelerating far faster than our capacity to understand and integrate it, this gap is widening — not only for learners, but for entire organisations where employees adapt GenAI informally without intentional design— nor actively led or facilitated by their managers.

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