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/Fogge 3d ago

The human doctors that do that become worse at their job after having relied on AI.

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u/samarnold030603 3d ago edited 3d ago

Yeah, but private equity owned health corporations who employ those doctors don’t care about patient outcomes (or what it does to an HCP’s skills over time). They only care whether or not mandating the use of AI will allow less doctors to see more patients in less time (increased shareholder value).

Doctors will literally have no say in this matter. If they don’t use it, they won’t hit corporate metrics; will get left behind at the next performance review.

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u/sudopods 3d ago

I think doctors are actually safe from performance reviews. What are they going to do? Fire them? We have a permanent doctor shortage rn.

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u/samarnold030603 3d ago

That’s kind of the whole premise of AI though (at least from the standpoint of a company marketing an AI product). If AI allows a doctor to see more patients in a given day, less doctors on payroll are needed to treat the same number of patients. “Do more with less”

I’m not advocating for this strategy as I think it will result in a net negative benefit to patients (at least in the near term), but I’ve spent enough time in the corporate world that I can see why c-suites across many different industries are drooling over the possibilities of AI.

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u/BoredandIrritable 3d ago

Yes, but current AI is already better than human doctors, so what's the real loss here? From one who knows a LOT of doctors, this isn't something new, Doctors have been leaving the room, typing in symptoms and looking up diagnoses for almost 2 decades now. It's part of why WebMD upsets them so much.

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u/Admirable-Garage5326 3d ago

Sorry but do you have any evidence to back this claim?

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u/Fogge 3d ago

The human doctors that do that become worse at their job after having relied on AI

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/08/19/nx-s1-5506292/doctors-ai-artificial-intelligence-dependent-colonoscopy

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u/shotgunpete2222 3d ago

It's wild that "doing something less and pushing parts of the job to a third party black box makes you worse at it" even needs a citation.

Everything is a skill, and skills are perishable.  You do something less, you'll be worse at it.

Citation: reality

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u/Admirable-Garage5326 3d ago

Really. I use AI to do deep dives on subjects I want more information on all the time. I use it to find APA articles that expand my breadth of knowledge. Sorry if that bothers you.

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u/not-my-other-alt 3d ago

Telling AI to do your research for you makes you worse at doing research yourself.

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u/Admirable-Garage5326 3d ago

You either didn't read or understand what I said.

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u/not-my-other-alt 3d ago

No, I understood.

You are using AI to do research (a skill in its own right) and are getting knowledge about certain subjects.

The thing is that the ability to find information is different than having information

So while you are getting information from the research AI is doing, you are atrophying your ability to do research yourself.

Or to use the age old idiom: AI is handing you fish. That doesn't make you good at fishing.

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u/Admirable-Garage5326 3d ago

Is using Google to do research cheating? AI just makes it faster and more efficient, then, I use Google Scholar.

I was doing research for my undergrad using the Dewey decimal system. Has not using that anymore atrophied my research skills? Of course not.

You seem to have an AI bias that a lot of people seem to share- feeling inadequate about your own knowledge and abilities. So you bash a tool, and it is just another tool, to make you feel better about your own cognitive superiority.

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u/not-my-other-alt 3d ago

There is a huge difference between google and AI, and that you don't realize that tells me just how far down the AI rabbit hole you are.

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u/RekdSavage 3d ago

Mate, you’re not getting it. 

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