Finding value with AI automation

When leaders respond to immediate panic, new business risks and mitigations often emerge. Two recent examples highlight the consequences of rushing to implement and publish positive results from AI adoption. The Wall Street Journal reported in April 2025 on companies struggling to realize returns on AI. Just weeks later, it covered MIT's retraction of a technical paper about AI where the results that led to its publication could not be substantiated. While these reports demonstrate the pitfalls of over-reliance on AI without common-sense guardrails, not all is off track in the land of enterprise AI adoption.