You have articulated what I have been struggling to say elegantly.

AI for the sake of AI will only bring in more trouble than we can handle. When I look at any technology, here is what I think about:

1. What significant problem does my business currently face? How can I either eliminate it, solve it or make it irrelevant?
2. What significant opportunity is the business missing out due to technological progress and our lack of expertise on this? This requires applied imagination to answer well.
3. What workarounds (that exists within my business) can I eliminate by deploying new technology?

I also created a model for identifying problems worth solving - SCOWL:

S - Strategic Deployment that helps us execute the strategy better.
C - Cracks in Information Flow. Aim is to get the right info to the right person in the right form at the right time
O - Overwhelmed: Deploy technology to remove overwhelm wherever we see in our business
W - Workarounds: Deploy technology to remove workarounds in our business processes.
L - Listed Projects: Deploy what your businesses asks you to deploy.

More on this @ https://www.linkedin.com/video/live/urn:li:ugcPost:6919193363845955584/

Thanks for this.