'AI Is Not Doing Its Job And Should Leave Us Alone' Says Gartner's Top Analyst
The Register, Tuesday, June 17th, 2025
As for agentic AI, don't get him started about the enormous challenge of making it work vendors just won't discuss
'AI is not doing its job today and should leave us alone' according to analyst firm Gartner's global chief of AI research Erick Brethenoux.
Speaking at the firm's Data & Analytics Summit in Sydney, Australia, today, Brethenoux said he didn't have time to read summaries of meetings two or five years ago, before the creation of such documents became a key application of generative AI.
'I don't have time to do the five actions in the summary,' he added. 'I know what I have to do.'
Brethenoux also questioned why AI-generated meeting summaries list action items from a meeting instead of AI just doing the work itself.