“Every single one. We have seen 0% success in a year and a half.”
Executives cannot name an actual application beyond typing into ChatGPT, but they keep repeating that AI is changing everything because the alternative is admitting they bought nothing. Doctorow frames it as a coordination problem. Cooperate with the lie and keep your job, tell the truth and get fired by peers who need the lie to hold. The consultant quote puts enterprise AI projects at zero success across eighteen months. Nobody in the meeting is going to be the one who says it.