CONCEPT
The Team as Trust Unit
The reconception of the organizational team after AI — not primarily as a production unit but as a social structure whose primary contribution is the trust, judgment, and cooperative capacity it generates.
If the individual AI-augmented builder can do what teams used to do, what is the team for? Fukuyama's framework provides an answer that inverts the conventional one: the team is not primarily a production unit but a trust unit. A social structure in which people learn to cooperate, challenge each other, hold each other accountable, and develop the social virtues that make complex cooperation possible. The team's productive output is important but not its primary contribution to the organization or society. The primary contribution is the social capital it generates — the trust, norms, habits of cooperation, and relational infrastructure that enable the organization to function as an organization rather than as a collection of individuals sharing an office.
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The conventional answer treats teams as production units organized for efficient conversion of inputs into outputs. This answer was never complete, but it was sufficient as long as the production