Like past waves of automation, AI isn’t going away. Boom or bust, the fight is over whose interests it will serve.

A report from MIT says that the overwhelming majority of generative artificial intelligence implementations are failing — 95 percent of them, in fact. That’s a lot of failure. For a series of technologies touted as the answer to every question ever asked, literally and figuratively, the incapacity of companies to effectively integrate AI into their work says a lot about the next stage of industrial mechanization, our economic system, and us. But what it doesn’t say, whatever one may hope, is that AI is doomed.

The trick here is that you’ve got to read beyond the headline. The MIT report didn’t conclude that AI doesn’t work, as flawed as it is, but rather that many integratio

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