AI can reproduce the artifacts glue people produce, but it cannot reproduce the connective tissue: the judgment, the legitimacy-building, the social bridging. Remove them, and you get the thing leaders keep complaining about: “I don’t know what’s happening, no one is escalating, everyone is working in silos.” The question is whether we’re genuinely rethinking how authority and judgment flow, or just automating old models faster. We’ve just removed the people who made it work, and now we’re blaming the playbook.