What AI adoption in corporate America looks like this year

What AI adoption in corporate America looks like this year. Because it always starts at some publicly traded company being now like, the AI. But let's make this clear, this person isn't really responsible for innovation. They're really more responsible for in allocating an arbitrary budget in the tens of millions of dollars to something that'll make the CEO sound innovative. So they buy like 5,000 subscriptions to Chat GPT, Gemini, or some co-pilot type of thing. And over the next month, like 90 employees open the registration link, maybe 25 create an account, but seven of which who actually use it were basically all volunteer told to be like AI champions with their floor. Point is, it doesn't matter. The company rolls out like a massive ad campaign about how AI saved employees 100,000 hours this quarter or whatever that means. So the board loves it, investors lose their mind, the stock pumps, so leadership naturally wants to double down. They renew the licenses, double the budget, blah blah blah. But this time they require a mandatory 45-minute training to force everyone to create an account, and then proudly report those adoption metrics back to this AI company who then buys billboards in SF and New York City to spread the word. Meanwhile, nobody bothers to check the adoption or engagement metrics. Instead, the board agrees to spend like $10 million on an engagement with McKinsey or some consultant who suggests a 4% workforce reduction to ensure that, you know, company hits their quarterly earnings. Then the CEO writes some sappy post on LinkedIn about being at the forefront of AI despite never logging in and not knowing their password. But the post gets thousands of likes, so the stock bumps again, the CEO gets a new equity package from the board, and the VP who ran the whole thing leaves to become the, you know, CEO of a new competitor. And that's, that's really what AI adoption in corporate America looks like.