'95% of AI Pilots Fail': The hidden agenda behind the viral stat that misled millions
You might have heard that '95% of corporate AI pilots' are failing. It was one of the most widely cited AI statistics of 2025, parroted by media outlets everywhere. It helped trigger a Nasdaq selloff and became a pillar of the case that 'AI is overhyped'. The problem: it's 100% wrong. And not by accident either.
If you carefully read the underlying report, ostensibly from MIT, you find the data point in the opposite direction.
But that was all buried, with the authors instead torturing the results to tell a very different narrative. Why?
Well, the research likely came with a hidden commercial…
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