AI Failure Patterns in Decision-Making: Drift, Responsibility Loss, and Hidden Risks in Everyday Work

By Edith-Anne Murray

AI Failure Patterns in Decision-Making

Drift, Responsibility Loss, and Hidden Risks in Everyday Work

Most AI-related failures do not result from recklessness or misuse.
They emerge from competent people adapting to tools that reward speed, fluency, and completion.

This is Volume 2 of the AI at Work series. Its role is diagnosis.
Through structured analysis and composite real-world cases, this book identifies recurring patterns:
responsibility diffusing across people and artifacts,
review becoming procedural rather than cognitive,
assumptions hardening into defaults,
and decisions forming without clear ownership.

The series follows a deliberate arc:
Volume 1 establishes awareness,
Volume 2 makes failure predictable,
Volume 3 introduces discipline through formal methods,
and the Companion Manual enables enforcement.

This volume does not propose controls or tools.
Its purpose is to make quiet failure visible-before it becomes normalized.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GHFB5HWC
• ISBN13: 9798243266987
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"