One question to ask when your boss wants ChatGPT for every problem

Inc. published a piece on November 11, 2026, about a common office pattern. A boss gets excited about ChatGPT, the popular AI chatbot, and starts treating it as the fix for everything. The article says a single question can bring that boss back to reality.

The pattern it describes

According to Inc., every workplace problem becomes a reason to launch another initiative. A slow process, a missed deadline or a messy inbox turns into a new project built around a new tool. The risk is that the tool arrives before anyone has agreed on what is actually broken.

The takeaway is to check whether a new tool solves a real problem or just adds more work. Before a team adopts another tool, it helps to ask what problem that tool solves. That is how a team can save time and money.

What is not known

The full article was not available, so the exact wording of the question is not confirmed here. No examples, companies or numbers from the piece are included. The advice in the summary points toward asking what problem a tool is meant to solve, but readers who want Inc.'s own phrasing should read the original story.