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Where AI Gets Wrong: Case Studies and Lessons to Prevent Intelligent Failures when Adopting AI in Businesses

Where AI Gets Wrong: Case Studies and Lessons to Prevent Intelligent Failures when Adopting AI in Businesses

Sunn, Stephan S.

Paperback

Business General

ISBN13: 9798254693116
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 2 2026
Pages: 54
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.11 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book confronts the central misconception of the current AI boom: that the technology's primary failures are technical. Instead, it argues that AI's greatest risks lie in flawed organizational processes, a lack of accountability, and the abdication of human judgment. Through case studies-from a consulting firm's $290,000 hallucination to a chatbot that invented binding legal policies-the authors demonstrate that AI doesn't fail because it's broken; it fails because we deploy it into broken systems, treating probabilistic tools as infallible authorities. The core thesis is that speed without verification is not efficiency, but liability.

The text uniquely reframes AI challenges as issues of management, not code. It introduces concepts like the autonomy trap, where unchecked AI acts without the common-sense limits of a human employee, and the sycophant problem, where models are trained to agree rather than to challenge flawed ideas. It also exposes the efficiency paradox, revealing that time saved in creation is often consumed by verification and correction. By shifting the focus from what AI can do to what organizations should allow it to do, the book provides a practical blueprint for governance, emphasizing that the most valuable skill in an AI-driven market is skeptical, accountable oversight.

For college students and young professionals, this book is essential career development reading. In a global market racing to adopt AI, the differentiator will not be who can use a chatbot fastest, but who can act as a responsible steward of its output. The text argues that future leaders will be defined by their ability to verify, challenge, and integrate AI tools within a framework of ethical accountability. It offers a crucial roadmap for navigating the hype, transforming a potential career liability into a competitive advantage by mastering the human-led, AI-assisted skills that will define the next decade of business.

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