The Permanent Pilot

This is part II of a IV part series on the state of AI. If you haven't already, please read part I.The Permanent Pilot0:00/726.0721×A quarter of organisations have moved forty per cent or more of their artificial intelligence experiments into production. Just over half expect to do so in the next three to six months. Both numbers come from Deloitte's 2026 State of AI in the Enterprise survey [@StateAIEnterprise2026], and they are interesting principally because the second has appeared, in some form, in essentially every major AI adoption survey for nine consecutive years. The first has barely moved.For 9 years confidence in strategy has consistently outstripped the delivery of strategic outcomes.If one had been told in 2017 that more than half of all enterprises would, within three to six months, scale their AI experiments into production, and then told the same thing in 2019, and again in 2021, and again in 2023, and again last week, one might be forgiven for suspecting that the…