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Career risk is also a very real motivation. If you are an executive at a company whose competitors are jumping on the AI bandwagon, but you are not, you will have to justify that decision towards your superiors or the board and investors. They might decide that you are making a huge strategic blunder and need to be replaced. Being proven right years later doesn't do much for you when you no longer have a job. And if you were wrong, then things look even worse for you. On the other hand, if you do get on the bandwagon yourself, and things go sideways, you can always point to the fact that everyone else was making the same mistake.