The AI Premium: Why Cutting-Edge Tech Can Cost More Than the Human It Replaces
By Vijay Martis
The pitch is irresistible. Replace costly human professionals with tireless, scalable, always-on artificial intelligence. No salaries. No benefits. No sick days. No attrition. Just pure, compounding efficiency—at a fraction of the cost. It is the central promise that has driven boardrooms from Mumbai to Manhattan to earmark record budgets for AI deployment, and it has made “AI-first” the defining corporate posture of our era.
But a growing body of evidence—from MIT laboratories, from the offices of Gartner analysts, from the budget post-mortems of enterprise technology teams—is beginning to complicate this narrative in ways that demand serious attention. In a significant number of real-world deployment scenarios, AI does not just fail to deliver the promised cost savings. It actually costs more than the human professional it was designed to replace.
This is not a fringe view held by AI skeptics. It comes from the heart of the technology...
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