AI experimentation inside companies has been moving swiftly, but it’s not always going smoothly. The share of companies that scrapped the majority of their AI initiatives jumped from 17% in 2024 to 42% so far this year, according to analysis from S&P Global Market Intelligence based on a survey of over 1,000 respondents. Overall, the average company abandoned 46% of its AI proofs of concept rather than deploying them, according to the data.
Against the backdrop of more than two years of rapid AI development and the pressure that has come with it, some company leaders facing repeated AI failures are starting to feel fatigued. Employees are feeling it, too: According to a study from Quantum Workplace, employees who consider themselves frequent AI users reported higher levels of burnout (45%) compared to those who infrequently (38%) or never (35%) use AI at work.
