Beating AI Fatigue: Quick Wins For CIOs
Search CIO, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Rapid AI advancements have left IT and business leaders feeling burned out. CIOs can take steps -- such as finding quick wins and upskilling employees -- to reduce this fatigue.
After years of excitement around GenAI, the fatigue is starting to kick in.
Many IT professionals -- such as CIOs and CTOs -- have overseen efforts to rapidly deploy generative AI (GenAI) capabilities across their organizations. The technology can offer various benefits, but the combination of media hype and unrealistic expectations has led to a feeling of burnout known as AI fatigue.
"We saw the overnight transformation people got from ChatGPT and things like that. And they kind of expected a similar level of transformational change, and it just didn't really come straight away," said David Sewell, CTO at Synechron, a digital transformation consulting firm.