News: AI Won’t Fix Advertising – It May Scale Its Chaotic Nature | Basis
Apr 14 2026

AI Won’t Fix Advertising – It May Scale Its Chaotic Nature

"Once again, the advertising industry is in the midst of a technological gold rush. The current hype around AI reflects a familiar pattern: sweeping claims, breathless predictions and a rush to declare that it will finally “fix” everything. It won’t.

While AI has transformative potential, it isn’t a cure-all to some of advertising’s biggest problems. Because problems like wasted spend, burned-out teams and opaque results are not primarily technological, they’re structural."

Read more from Basis' Robert Kurtz in StreetFight.

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