With four out of five companies using AI in their businesses — and five out of six of them not seeing “a tangible bottom-line impact,”1 one has to wonder whether the hallucinations are happening on the human side.
Once again, our fascination with shiny objects has surfaced the age-old conundrum of can versus should.
“The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.”
— B.F. Skinner, 1969
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Harper’s Index, November 2025
"4 out of 5 companies using AI...5 out of 6 of them report..." OMFG, now I know why THE MATH frustrates my 11-year-old grand-daughter!!