AI Mania is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
hopdevil writes:
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/
Are companies actually seeing massive productivity gains from their AI adoption? Does any of this sordid affair make sense?
This should be an easy question, but it is surprisingly hard to get a straight answer to it. Executives that tell the press that their company has gone insane will quickly find themselves removed from their positions. Employees who are honest will find themselves fired in short-order, or "randomly" selected for a round of layoffs. In fact, it is in the interests of almost every actor in the space - boards, executives, employees, vendors, consultants - to obfuscate and misrepresent the success rate of AI projects. Many publicly traded companies are putting out announcements about their AI productivity gains when I know for a fact that the businesses have done nothing other than purchase Copilot licenses and declare victory.
Yet we need to know if these projects are panning out - if the total focus on AI as a core tenet of business strategy is succeeding at a reasonable rate, then a discussion about the relative risk and reward is warranted.
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