AI’s abundance trap: pilots, decks, and a reckoning ahead

Fortune’s Nick Lichtenberg reports Amy Webb’s warning that corporate AI spending is creating cheap-to-start abundance while flooding firms with endless pilots and analysis decks that fail to integrate into operations, leaving decision-makers paralyzed and costs rising. Bain finds most AI cost savings below 10% even as budgets grow, signaling a coming reckoning next year. The situation isn’t a typical dot-com bubble: it’s an abundance-led productivity boom that carries new costs and a leadership skills mismatch, requiring deeper AI fluency from executives.