AI adoption is mostly driven from the top. What this means is, shareholders and regulators would make the CEOs to claim that the company is using AI. CEOs trick

AI adoption is mostly driven from the top. What this means is, shareholders and regulators would make the CEOs to claim that the company is using AI. CEOs trickle this grand vision and goals down, allocating funds and asking for immediate reports showing the evidence of AI everywhere in the company. One executive went to the extent saying that anyone not using AI in their work would face disciplinary action. So the point is, it is not about whether AI can fix a bug or do something useful. It is about reporting and staying competitive via claiming. Just like many other reports which don't have any specific other purpose other than reporting itself. A few years back, I asked an Architect who was authoring an architecture document, about who the audience for this document is. She replied saying the target audience is the reviewers. I asked, does anyone use it after the review? She says, not sure. And not surprisingly, the project which took 3 years to develop with a large cost, was shelved after being live for an hour in prod, because the whole thing was done only for a press release, saying the company has gone live with a new tech. They didn't lie.