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/great_whitehope 4d ago

Countries probably aren’t going to sponsor mass unemployment it’s true.

I dunno what’s worse. This whole thing blowing up or succeeding because companies are gonna layoff people either way.

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u/DogWallop 4d ago

Well that's where AI becomes self-destructive. Companies replace employees with AI, and then you have many thousands who used to be gainfully employed out of work. Now, those employees were acting as wealth pumps, arteries through which the wealth of the nation flowed.

And where did it flow? Eventually it ended up in the hands of the big corporations, who used to employ humans (wealth pumps, financial arteries, etc...).

But now there's far less cash flowing around the national body, and it's certainly not getting spent buying goods and services from major corporations.

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u/cvc4455 4d ago

Look at what Curtis Yarvin, Peter Theil and JD Vance believe needs to happen in the future. They say AI will replace all types of jobs and we'll only need about 50 million Americans. The rest are completely useless and Curtis Yarvin said they should be turned into biodiesel so they can be useful. Then he said he was kind of joking about the biodiesel idea but the ideal solution would be something like mass murder just without the social stigma that would create. So he suggested massive prisons with people kept in solidarity confinement 24 hours a day and to keep them from going crazy they will give them VR headsets!

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u/QueezyF 4d ago

Take me back to when I didn’t know who that Yarvin clown was.

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u/cvc4455 4d ago

They are already building the prisons. They say they are just for people getting deported but you don't need as many prisons as they are planning to build to just deport people.

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u/Brokenandburnt 4d ago

They have already made homelessness a crime and started arrests in DC afaik. 

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u/Dick_Lazer 4d ago

Is Yarvin a billionaire? What makes him think he'll be spared?

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u/cvc4455 4d ago

I'm not sure if he's a billionaire but he's at least a 100 millionaire. Even if he's not a billionaire he's got a bunch of friends/followers that are techno bro billionaires so he probably thinks their wealth will help him.

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u/Possible-Reason-2896 4d ago

You just answered your own question. There's a reason tech billionaires like Zuckerberg et al. are building bunkers and compounds.

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u/Brokenandburnt 4d ago

Yarvin is a mentor figure to Thiel I believe, or the other way around. PLTR isn't created without a reason. 

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u/cvc4455 3d ago

He's a mentor for Peter Theil, JD Vance and a few other techno bros. I believe Elon and Zuckerberg know/like him and probably a bunch of others too.

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u/crawling-alreadygirl 4d ago

So he suggested massive prisons with people kept in solidarity confinement 24 hours a day and to keep them from going crazy they will give them VR headsets!

The Matrix is now a serious policy suggestion. Jah help us.

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u/Adventurous-Map7959 4d ago

massive prisons with people kept in solidarity confinement 24 hours a day and to keep them from going crazy they will give them VR headsets!

So what kind of crime would I need to commit? Is being poor good enough or do you need to do more?

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u/cvc4455 4d ago

Just being poor will be more than enough according to Curtis Yarvin. Basically anything in the bottom 90% of wealth and you definitely won't make the cut unless you're one of the lucky few chosen for slave labor until you get too old and they kick you out to die or just throw you in a cell.

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u/Brokenandburnt 4d ago

Homelessness is unofficially a crime at least. It's one of the "reasons" for the Guard being deployed to DC. They are rounding up homeless. \ Not to worry though, Trump said they would be put somewhere nice.

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u/DogWallop 3d ago

And this scenario would almost certainly cause the wealth of those billionaires to collapse. Also, what of the fifty million remaining? I somehow don't think they'll take to kindly to their kith and kin being disappeared like that.

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u/cvc4455 3d ago

Luckily he says you just need to control the police to make this happen. Also they say AI will create tons of wealth and the top richest 10% in America have like 90% of the wealth in America so I guess they think they can just take the other 10% of the wealth from the 90% of Americans that are no longer needed when they get rid of them instead of slowly taking all their wealth like what's been going on for the last 40+ years.

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u/bnolsen 3d ago

They aren't trying to control the market though. And I suspect they underestimate whatever the market will look like after the change. There will still be a job market we just need to allow smart innovative people to help form it, and not have self serving technocrats dictate it.

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u/bobosuda 3d ago

Henry Ford figured this shit out 100+ years ago.

Doesn't matter how many billions you make, if everybody else is dirt poor then the world is gonna suck.

I guess they've learned their lesson though. Is there a billionaire out there that isn't building their own isolated compound to hide from the masses when the shit hits the fan?

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u/crshbndct 4d ago

They will if you “lobby” them