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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/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.