The most interesting effect of AI in organizations may not be productivity. It may be a shift in how groups reason together.
When AI systems summarize, retrieve, draft, simulate, and compare, they become part of the cognitive environment of the team. They influence not only speed, but also what is seen as a good question or a credible answer.
The risk
A team can become faster while becoming less thoughtful. Automation can remove friction that was actually doing intellectual work.
The design challenge is to use AI to expand the group's field of thought, not compress it into the most statistically convenient answer.