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ReadReal vs Hype10 Jul 20260:35AI on the factory floor

Who Holds the Override Switch?

Over 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by 2027. Gartner named three causes, and the model is not one of them.

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Is your fab defining approval tiers for AI recommendations yet, or is a human still clicking "accept" on every one?

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The factory just decided your approval step is TOO SLOW… ABB's autonomy ladder runs zero to five. Your fab sits at Their reason? Latency. Humans are slow. But here's the problem. Gartner: forty percent of these Here's what nobody tells you. An agent doesn't run your fab. It Unsupervised, that doesn't scrap one wafer. It biases the population. Nature published the fix in twenty-twenty-three. Humans won the messy Autonomy isn't the win. PLACEMENT is. That switch has a name on

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