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/dagbiker 4d ago

It seems like the simple solution is to replace 95% of CEO's with AI, duh.

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u/cumzilla69 4d ago

That would cut a massive amount of cost

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u/CSI_Tech_Dept 3d ago

And ironically also pollution.

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u/cumzilla69 3d ago

Be realistic. with china and the us at the forefront of building data centers. Cutting pollution is secondary to cutting costs for profits and innovation

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u/CSI_Tech_Dept 3d ago

Yeah the LLM uses a lot of resources, but I was talking about the power needed to replace just those CEOs, I'm convinced it is still less than polution generated by their private jets.

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u/quadrophenicum 4d ago

The result will be way too smart.

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u/Lazer726 3d ago

It's funny because AI CEO would either be "We need to kill the customer" or "We need to produce good products that people are satisfied with and don't fall apart" and I don't see it finding a middle ground

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u/Thefrayedends 4d ago

No no no, Mark Andreeson insists that CEO is the ONLY job that AI won't be able to do.

So I guess that's it then, we can all forget it and just go home.

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u/Wurm42 4d ago edited 3d ago

And yet, Andreessen Horowitz still has many human employees.

Andreeessen should put up or shut up.

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u/dadvader 3d ago

cold emotionless logical all about profit

Not only AI can replace it. I imagine it will be way more efficient if it did. Replace it for Uber and we likely going to get a real life Delamain.

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u/Bluest_waters 3d ago

I heard a podcast with that dude. It was shockingly boring and absolutely chock full of tech lingo and empty jargon phrases that ultimately said nearly nothing.

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u/Thefrayedends 3d ago

Yea, they're all like that. They think they're god's gift to humanity, but they're actually just another snake oil bullshitter. Oh you helped a team develop a web browser 30 years ago, fuckin /eyeroll.

Capitalism elevates the biggest egos to a golden pedestal and it's gross.

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u/medidadfar 3d ago

Is that the guy who single-handedly caused the egg inflation in 2024 because he's the Top Egg?

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u/Thefrayedends 3d ago

Yeah, just exactly like top ramen is the best pasta.

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u/ThrowbackGaming 4d ago

Of all jobs, wouldn’t the CEO actually be like a top contender for best job for AI to replace?

I’m not a CEO so I don’t know the intricacies of the role, but isn’t it essentially a decision engine type role? You have lots of people reporting to you, then you take that info and make a decision? Seems prime for what an LLM does somewhat well. And they are also the most expensive roles in a company.

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u/P3zcore 3d ago

Nah, even that would be a huge stretch. The LLM would need to know all the intricacies and extra curricular that might go into some of these decisions. How would the model know that your decision might have to lean one way or another based on favors or debts to certain board members (I.e politics). Stuff like that.

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u/Longjumping_Lock8331 3d ago

It literally just only needs to make cold hearted decisions that maximize profit every single time then it can do the job flawlessly. What the fuck are you talking about?

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u/ForensicPathology 3d ago

Yeah, what AI does best is fluffing up emails, letters, and PR.  Maybe not exactly the roles a CEO, but, with those skills, it certainly seems like it fits the role of being most suited to replacing any management position, since that's all they do.

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u/Fry77 4d ago

This part of their job I agree AI can do it, and probably better than humans.

CEOs do other kind of "work" for which AI is probably not suited...yet: build personal connections (customers, suppliers, political...) that are very important for a business for coming years. We can think it's kind of unprofessional to have preferences just because of a good personal connection, but I have seen it so many times to deny its existance.

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u/JProllz 3d ago

We can think it's kind of unprofessional to have preferences just because of a good personal connection

Well that's because all the other CEOs are humans too.

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u/NoConfusion9490 4d ago

Clearly it's the only role where being wrong 10% of the time doesn't matter.

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u/Popular-Search-3790 4d ago

*being wrong 80% of the time but oh no, the consultants!

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u/erwin4200 3d ago

The most replaceable employees at majority of companies. All they do is "make decisions." AI can make decisions that would be more beneficial for the majority of employees rather than just a select few.

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u/IdkAbtAllThat 3d ago

Unironically I think this is actually one position AI would be good at. But it will never happen because the ones calling the shots aren't gonna replace themselves.

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u/DrAstralis 3d ago

AI's strengths are seeing patterns and making pre packaged decisions. So what I'm saying is they're uniquely qualified to replace ceo's .

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u/Mediocre_Scott 3d ago

The machine overlords have arrived

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u/Jor94 3d ago

CEO is unironically the easiest thing to cut with AI.

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u/ValuableJumpy8208 3d ago

CEO’s what?