The AI draft reads beautifully. The numbers line up. A leader reads it once and thinks: this is obviously good. New experiments on reasoning puzzles suggest that feeling can show up whether the answer is right or wrong. So which part deserves a real check?

Sahar Andrade, MB.BCh, Neuroleadership Coach: executives are opening ChatGPT before their hardest feedback conversations, drafting the words, then rehearsing the script alone before saying a syllable to the actual person. The tool is not the problem. Stopping at the script instead of regulating the body that has to deliver it is. Why does a leader reach for AI before a hard conversation? A hard conversation with a direct report registers in the brain the same way a physical t