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In this debut episode of AI Literacy for Leaders, host Laurence Gill breaks down one of the most sobering statistics in enterprise technology today — 95% of AI initiatives are delivering zero measurable ROI. That means for every 20 AI projects your organization launches, 19 of them are burning cash.

But this isn’t a story about technology failing. It’s a story about foundations.

Laurence unpacks the five bottlenecks that turn high-potential AI into expensive science projects — from dirty data and fragile infrastructure, to silent model decay, governance gaps, and the human culture problems that no algorithm can fix. No jargon, no hype. Just the unsexy, critical realities that every leader needs to understand before greenlighting their next AI investment.

In this episode:

∙ Why 80% of your organization’s data is invisible to most AI systems

∙ The hidden technical debt quietly killing your AI initiatives

∙ What “data drift” is and why set-it-and-forget-it is lethal for AI

∙ How the EU AI Act is changing the legal stakes of AI deployment

∙ Why CEO-level oversight is the single biggest predictor of AI success

The bottom line: AI isn’t a magic wand. It’s a mirror. And until leaders start treating data infrastructure as seriously as the models built on top of it, the failure rate isn’t going anywhere.

AI Literacy for Leaders is built for executives, department heads, and decision makers who need to understand AI well enough to lead — without going back to school for a computer science degree.

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