Agentic AI has a 98-99.5% failure rate.
But business leaders are still pretending (lying) AI is taking peoples jobs.
https://arxiv.org/html/2510.26787v1
The best-performing current AI agents achieve an automation rate of 2.5%, failing to complete most projects at a level that would be accepted as commissioned work in a realistic freelancing environment. This demonstrates that despite rapid progress on knowledge and reasoning benchmarks, contemporary AI systems are far from capable of autonomously performing the diverse demands of remote labor.