AI Adoption Falls Short: 40% of Companies Miss Savings Targets Due to Human Intervention
A staggering 40% of companies are failing to achieve their AI cost savings targets, with most aiming for 11-20% savings but only 14% succeeding in saving over 21%. The main culprit behind this shortfall is excessive human involvement in AI processes, which undermines the potential for autonomous decision-making and efficiency gains.
According to a Bain survey of 951 companies, almost 40 percent achieved less than 10 percent in AI cost savings, even though most had targeted 11 to 20 percent. One alleged reason is that only 7 percent actually run fully autonomous AI agents, even though their business cases assume exactly that. The article Bain study finds companies miss AI savings targets because humans keep getting in the way appeared first on The Decoder.