"In an IBM survey of 2000 CEOs, 64 percent acknowledged investing in some technologies partly from fear of falling behind before knowing their value."
IBM and Oxford Economics surveyed 2,000 CEOs across 33 countries and 24 industries in early 2025. Sixty-four percent acknowledged fear-of-falling-behind investments in some technologies, providing a direct empirical foundation for the fear-of-missing-out dynamic without claiming most AI investments lacked expected productivity benefits.
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