I helped build the Pentagon's AI transformation. Corporate America is making every mistake we almost made
· Source: fortune.com
In short
Drew Cukor, former founding Chief of Project Maven at the Pentagon, argues that corporate America is failing at AI adoption by treating it as a technology experiment rather than an organizational transformation. Drawing on lessons from the Pentagon's landmark AI program, he warns that while the U.S. builds the world's most powerful AI, it ranks only 24th in adoption — far behind China, Singapore, and the UAE. He identifies three key failures: lack of executive ownership, failure to dismantle legacy processes, and measuring activity instead of operational outcomes.
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