> The problem imo is the slow deterioration of institutional knowledge that offloading the mental task of wisdom gathering to AI is causing.

That's the whole point of Global managerial class even without AI. The idea is just by creating metrics one can measure how teams, groups, organization and whole industries are performing.

Before the current AI complex the previous one Agile Industry Complex One can see we starting producing 10x more code, 50x more JIRAs resolved, 100x more network bandwidth used. All these metrics tremendous gain in productivity.

Also it may not have been seen in US but in many places a change in political regime does want to burn down previously collected institutional knowledge because new dispensation have their own idea about what is knowledge, who will preserve it and how it will be preserved.