321. Why 80% of AI projects fail, and it's not the AI's fault

Tech for Non-Techies · Sophia Matveeva · Sep 16, 2026 · 17 min

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Sophia contrasts a failed $600K New York City chatbot with a successful Korean steel plant deployment to explain five reasons AI transformations fail, and why the cause is usually how the project was set up rather than the technology.

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Why do most AI projects fail?

Sophia Matveeva of Tech for Non-Techies on the five reasons most AI projects fail and what a successful rollout did differently.

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