Scientific Definition
Teams under-reporting AI capability to protect comp or status.
Plain-English Definition
Teams under-reporting AI capability to protect comp or status.
Feynman Explanation
Quiet quitting goes both ways.
Core Principle
Teams under-reporting AI capability to protect comp or status.
Mechanisms
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Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
Quiet quitting goes both ways.
Examples
- Salespeople not adopting tools that reveal pipeline health.
- Predictable when adoption threatens individual interests.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Align personal upside with adoption upside.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Align personal upside with adoption upside.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
Innovators → early adopters → majority → laggards, AI-specific.
Discounting algorithmic advice even when superior.
AI bolted onto existing workflows to look forward-leaning.
Redesigning roles around AI capability.
AI pilots that succeed and never scale.
Pre-deployment analysis of who loses what.
Employees using unauthorized AI tools to get work done.
AI doesn't just replace tasks — it threatens identities.
Written rules about how AI may be used internally.
AI system that takes actions to achieve goals, often across tools.
When the agent acts, who's responsible?
Augmentation strategy vs. substitution strategy.