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Globally, nearly half of business leaders doubt their leadership teams have the AI system skills needed to navigate risks and opportunities. A May 2025 Business Leaders report by the Adecco Group, which surveyed 2,000 C-suite executives across 13 countries, highlights a significant gap in AI readiness at the top of organizations.
Perhaps more telling, only about one-third of business leaders say they’ve engaged with AI improvement initiatives over the past 12 months, despite widespread acknowledgment that AI readiness is critical to business success.
Cristopher Kuehl, VP of Artificial Intelligence & Data Science at Akkodis
This leadership gap creates a risky vacuum—one increasingly filled by HR tech that may be making the problem worse. Many HR departments rely on AI tools that reinforce existing assumptions instead of surfacing uncomfortable or challenging insights.
Since AI is trained on historical patterns, it often amplifies blind spots rather than correcting them. Christopher Kuehl, vice president of artificial intelligence and data science at digital engineering firm Akkodis, calls this the “AI yes man” problem.
“An AI yes man is a system that tells you what you want to hear rather than what you need to know,” Kuehl says. “In practice, it’s a system of chatbots
