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Does Your Enterprise AI Have an Opinion? Joe Bradley, CTO of IDC | AI with Alec E33

Aug 23, 2026 · 42m

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“Does it have an opinion?” LLMs are trained to be persuadable because persuadable is adjacent to useful. So they drift toward the answer you consciously or subconsciously want. Every CEO has felt an AI agree with them too early and too eagerly. Every engineer knows exactly why it happens. Naming it is at the foundation of how you graft AI into your business. Not naming it is how you don’t. That question came from Joe Bradley, CTO of IDC, on AIWA E33. IDC built a product, IDC Quanta, to resist that drift by design. Opinionated and Open: Joe and his team started where they could close a loop.A “partitionable” business with its own revenue line, its own customer and an outcome you can measure.…