We're Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI

This article argues that AI’s near-term economic effect is not the cheap abundance many leaders promised, but a more expensive operating environment: major AI buildouts are pushing up infrastructure, energy, and talent costs even as broad labor displacement has not yet materialized. For CIOs and technology leaders, the strategic takeaway is to treat AI as a capital-intensive transformation with inflationary side effects, requiring sharper scrutiny of ROI, cost governance, and where AI truly creates business value versus simply adding spend.