{"slug": "the-40-ai-failure-stat-everyone-cites-hides-a-stranger-paradox-in-gartners-own", "title": "The 40% AI Failure Stat Everyone Cites Hides a Stranger Paradox in Gartner’s Own Numbers", "summary": "A widely cited statistic that 40% of AI projects fail is based on a misreading of Gartner's own data, according to an analysis of the research firm's reports. The actual figures reveal a more nuanced picture, with failure rates varying significantly by project type and maturity. The analysis highlights how the statistic has been distorted in industry discourse, potentially misleading organizations in their AI adoption strategies.", "body_md": "This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.\n\nYou can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-40-ai-failure-stat-everyone-cites-hides-a-stranger-paradox-in-gartners-own", "canonical_source": "https://pub.towardsai.net/the-40-ai-failure-stat-everyone-cites-hides-a-stranger-paradox-in-gartners-own-numbers-02348336f178?source=rss----98111c9905da---4", "published_at": "2026-08-30 20:01:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-31 00:22:06.120571+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Gartner"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-40-ai-failure-stat-everyone-cites-hides-a-stranger-paradox-in-gartners-own", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-40-ai-failure-stat-everyone-cites-hides-a-stranger-paradox-in-gartners-own.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-40-ai-failure-stat-everyone-cites-hides-a-stranger-paradox-in-gartners-own.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-40-ai-failure-stat-everyone-cites-hides-a-stranger-paradox-in-gartners-own.jsonld"}}