Glossary term

AI ROI

The net financial or strategic value generated by an AI initiative relative to its full cost.

The most contested term on this site. "AI ROI" gets used interchangeably for adoption rates, cost savings, and business outcomes, which is precisely why the same headline number can mean opposite things across two sources. Read every instance of this term against this site's measure taxonomy — Adoption, Cost, or Outcome — before treating it as comparable to another source's figure.