{
  "id": 2124610,
  "title": "Algorithms Trap Us in the Familiar. Can They Also Spark Breakthroughs?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/algorithms-trap-us-in-the-familiar-can-they-also-spark-breakthroughs",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-20T11:00:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MIT Sloan",
    "slug": "mit-sloan",
    "url": "https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/algorithms-trap-us-in-the-familiar-can-they-also-spark-breakthroughs/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Gary Waters/Ikon Images Algorithmic tools promise to democratize access to knowledge and thus spark creativity and innovation, but research we conducted revealed a hidden risk: Those tools may be silently narrowing organizations’ creative potential by suppressing the value of expertise. The fault lies not with the experts but with the hidden architecture of the tools […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}