Metadata
- Author: Joe Reis
- Full Title:: AI Televangelism
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://joereis.substack.com/p/ai-televangelism
- Read date:: 2025-08-24
Highlights
Then came MIT’s new report: 95% of enterprise GenAI pilots show no measurable ROI. Headlines screamed “AI fails in business.” The nuance is different. Pilots in back-office automation are working, especially with specialized vendors (~67% success), but in-house experiments mostly flopped. It’s a snapshot, not a death sentence for AI. (View Highlight)
If AI pilots are failing everywhere, it can’t also be replacing half the workforce overnight. You can’t have both “AI doesn’t work” and “AI is coming for your job” at the same time. The crossed signals are dizzying. (View Highlight)
AI is running into the same walls as every modernization effort before it - messy organizations, unclear success metrics, and slow adoption curves. (View Highlight)