The Brutal Truth About AI Transformation That Most Business Leaders Miss

Only 5% of enterprise AI projects ship. Not because the model failed — because the system wasn't designed.Noelle Russell — CEO of the AI Leadership Institute and 5x Microsoft Trustworthy AI MVP — has built enterprise AI systems at Amazon Alexa, Microsoft, IBM, and Accenture. She has watched hundreds of pilots fail. And studied the ones that didn't.In this episode we cover:Why AI failure is a leadership problem, not a technical one.The ARC framework — how the 5% build competitive advantage.Overprivileged AI — why most teams can't see it until it's too late.Constitutional AI — using agents to monitor other agents.Agent isolation, RBAC, and kill switches.The AI governance card — documenting every AI system you deploy.Why policy is the floor, not the ceiling.The minimum remarkable product — what viability can't do that remarkableness can.The grandmother jailbreak — how a journalist broke GPT 3.5 with a story.Model drift, prompt injection, and data poisoning — the silent killers of production AI."Baby tigers are running wild. And nobody even has an inventory."— Noelle RussellNoelle RussellCEO, AI Leadership Institute5x Microsoft Trustworthy AI MVPLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/noelleaiSubrata KarHost, The Spark & The ForgeLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/subrotoNewsletter: substack.com/@subratakarWatch the full episode with visuals on YouTube:https://youtu.be/_dQb417CXaY