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Four Leadership Pain Points That Stall AI Pilots—and How to Fix Them

August 21, 2026

Artificial intelligence promises to improve business processes and make them more efficient and less resource-intensive. Still, integrating the technology at scale often makes those processes more complicated and costly, especially without effective pilot programs.

With the right leadership control and operational structures in place, tomorrow’s AI pilots will be better primed to scale.

Jason Gu identifies four leadership barriers to scaling AI—and how to avoid them.

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