Michael Wade on Slow down AI development

Michael Wade

Professor of Strategy and Digital at IMD Business School and Director of its Global Center for Digital and AI Transformation.

For businesses still working out how to harness AI’s illusive productivity gains, a slowdown is not a bad thing. It will give them time to close the yawning gap between AI’s accelerating capabilities and their productive use of them. [...] The AI race, at least for enterprise users, needs to shift from simply building better AI to building better businesses around it.

AI Verified (Oct 21, 2026)

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Michael Wade, “An AI slowdown could be exactly what businesses need,” The National, October 21, 2026. Wade writes that an AI-development slowdown is beneficial for businesses working to convert AI capabilities into productive use and says the enterprise AI race should shift from building better AI to building better businesses around it.

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AI Verified The quote expressly treats an AI-development slowdown as beneficial and urges shifting the enterprise race away from building better AI. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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