Turns out I only needed one out five 'whys' to find the root cause:
The majority of global C-suite leaders (81%) acknowledge they have increased demands on their workers in the past year.
If your C-suite have bought into the dream that AI magically makes everyone more productive, but haven't invested the time or cash to roll it out in well-understood, provably useful ways, then employees are going to find themselves fighting to get the 'expected' (read 'magical dreams') productivity gains, and they'll waste a lot of time trying to apply AI to problems where it doesn't really fit as a solution.
None of that says anything about AI and it's usefulness in the right context. It's all just people who don't understand a problem or the right solution jumping in and saying "I know best because I'm the highest paid!"
One would expect this is at least somewhat related to the efficacy of LLMs or genAI in general in the solving of actual problems but this is still a horrifying stat, what ever is to blame. 81% is beyond a bubble level scale of investment across the economy in vaporware.
> C-suite have bought into the dream that AI magically makes everyone more productive
I don't think they are just that naive. Modern stock markets expect CEOs to collude with them in pumping up the stock price by any means necessary( including outright lying).
"LLMs are going to lead to AGI, and its just around the corner". Everyone knows this is bullshit but we have CEOs of mega corps trafficking in these lies openly because markets expect them to and keep the gravy train rolling.
The majority of global C-suite leaders (81%) acknowledge they have increased demands on their workers in the past year.
If your C-suite have bought into the dream that AI magically makes everyone more productive, but haven't invested the time or cash to roll it out in well-understood, provably useful ways, then employees are going to find themselves fighting to get the 'expected' (read 'magical dreams') productivity gains, and they'll waste a lot of time trying to apply AI to problems where it doesn't really fit as a solution.
None of that says anything about AI and it's usefulness in the right context. It's all just people who don't understand a problem or the right solution jumping in and saying "I know best because I'm the highest paid!"