'AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making'

An essay by Nikhil Suresh argues that corporate "AI mania" has created a culture where executives make exaggerated claims about AI's productivity gains without dissent, driven by fear that contradicting inflated customer expectations could result in lost contracts and termination. While generative AI has genuinely made advanced capabilities accessible to non-technical users, the tech industry has become caught in religious-like fervor that silences legitimate skeptics who recognize these claims are implausible. The disconnect between hype and reality persists because questioning AI's transformative impact is professionally dangerous, not because the skeptics are actually wrong.