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The trend that most marketing leaders are missing

Sep 24, 2025
Marketing leaders are leaning too heavily on AI without human oversight, leading to customer dissatisfaction. Stephen Roach discusses the importance of maintaining human interaction in automated experiences. He emphasizes the need for better integration between AI and human agents, ensuring contextual personalization. He highlights a troubling MIT study showing significant failures in agent performance and warns against treating AI as a silver bullet. The conversation centers around knowing when to automate and when to rely on human judgment for optimal outcomes.
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INSIGHT

AI Is Not A Magic Wand

  • Treating AI as a magic wand leads to strategic failure and implementation gaps.
  • Models can be strong while poor integration and purpose cause most real-world failures.
ADVICE

Place Deterministic Logic Carefully

  • Integrate AI purposefully and align deterministic versus non-deterministic tasks.
  • Keep deterministic logic in controlled systems and use AI where judgment and flexibility are needed.
INSIGHT

Models Good, Implementation Lags

  • High model quality doesn't guarantee successful adoption inside organizations.
  • The MIT study shows most agent projects fail due to implementation and knowledge gaps, not model capability.
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