Contrarians No More: AI Skepticism Is on the Rise

This article examines a late-2025 shift in sentiment toward generative AI, highlighting declining ROI for enterprises, rising costs, and concern over a potential bubble alongside critiques of overpromised capabilities. While acknowledging promising cybersecurity applications (such as AI-assisted vulnerability identification), it underscores mixed benefits, integration and cost hurdles, hype inflation, and the likelihood of spending pullbacks in 2026 even as AI remains a durable technology.