Cory Doctorow examines why corporate leaders systematically overstate the benefits of AI deployment inside their own companies. Drawing on consultant Nikhil Suresh’s research across hundreds of firms, he argues that executives, boards, and vendors all face strong incentives to publicly claim AI success regardless of actual results, since admitting failure can end careers. Doctorow contends that this dynamic produces widespread fabricated success stories even as enterprise AI projects largely fail to deliver measurable productivity gains, at significant cost to workers and shareholders.
