The author, a data-infrastructure consultant writing under the pen name Ludicity, argues that widespread corporate AI adoption is largely failing while organizational leaders cannot publicly admit it due to career risk and coordination problems. The piece contends that executives, employees, and vendors have built a self-reinforcing system in which acknowledging that AI projects fail to deliver promised productivity gains leads to termination, pushing people to misrepresent results or fabricate AI usage. This dynamic, the author argues, has made honest organizational decision-making nearly impossible, as projects get labeled ‘AI-driven’ regardless of whether AI actually creates value.
