The AI Revolution Won’t Happen Overnight

If you believe the frenzied hype, AI is about to tie our shoes, run our businesses, and solve world hunger. McKinsey predicts it will add $17.1–$25.6 trillion to the global economy annually. It’s a seductive vision. It’s also a hallucination. As a business-first CIO with nearly three decades of experience turning emerging tech into business value, I’ve seen this movie before. It rarely ends the way the trailer promises. We’ve spent 75 years asking whether machines can think. Maybe the better question now is whether we can.