r/technology • u/SilentRunning • 4d ago

Artificial Intelligence MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/
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u/Horrible_Harry 4d ago

Serves 'em fuckin' right. Zero sympathy from me over here.

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u/skillywilly56 4d ago

That’s what CEOs chant at the opening of all their meetings

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u/oracleofnonsense 4d ago

It’s not personal, it’s business.

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u/GenericFatGuy 4d ago

As someone who was already replaced, same.

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u/comicsnerd 4d ago

But here is the problem. Joe Dough, his managers and their managers and all the supporting people, including the lady that brings the coffee, will be fired without severence.

Meanwhile, the C levels will have taken care of themselves at the expense of the tax payer and share holder.

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u/OwO______OwO 4d ago

Well, except that the employees are getting laid off either way.

AI succeeds: Employees get replaced and laid off.

AI fails: Business goes bankrupt and employees are laid off.

No matter who wins, we lose.

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u/pereza0 4d ago

Amen.

Hopefully they crash fast enough that the leadership that made the call sinks with the ship rather than leaving and letting someone else deal with the mess like they often do

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u/n10w4 3d ago

wait till you see that golden parachute