The era of romantic AI is over. How to get real.

Something shifted in the last few weeks of March 2026. Scroll through LinkedIn’s CIO community and the vocabulary has changed. The words pilot, proof of concept and look-at-what-AI-does have quietly disappeared. In their place: governance, accountability, sovereignty and ROI. Not aspirational ROI. The board-level ROI. The justify-your-budget-or-lose-it ROI. AI is…

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