From Hype to Real Value: A New Era for Artificial Intelligence

Companies are shifting from experiments to real-world deployment, with a focus on productivity, safety and governance.

A fictional insurer offers a useful example of AI’s move into everyday work. Its assistant prepares a first summary of routine documents, while experienced staff handle exceptions and check references. Managers count corrections and complaints alongside completed cases, revealing whether apparent speed has merely shifted work to another desk.

That narrower approach changes the procurement conversation. Instead of buying an open-ended promise of automation, the company evaluates a specific service with defined failure limits. The strongest gain comes when employees spend less time assembling information and more time explaining decisions that still require human judgement.

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