Enterprises Pilot AI Agents, But Only 5% Trust Them for Production
What happened
Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel revealed at RSA Conference 2026 that 85% of enterprises are piloting AI agents, but only 5% have moved them into production. This 80-point gap is attributed to a lack of "trust architecture," emphasizing that "trusted delegation" is crucial for market adoption.
Why it matters
CTOs and VPs of Engineering grappling with AI agent deployment must shift focus from mere delegation to "trusted delegation," implementing robust security architectures that integrate policy enforcement at build-time and establish clear agent identities.
Topics
- AI Agents
- Trust Architecture
- Enterprise AI Adoption
- Cisco Security Products
Articles in this trend
- 85% of enterprises are running AI agents. Only 5% trust them enough to ship. — VentureBeat
- Layered Mutability: Continuity and Governance in Persistent Self-Modifying Agents — Takara TLDR - Daily AI Papers
- The Sequence Opinion #864: Every AI Agent Needs a Computer — TheSequence
- One Brain, Many Blind Spots — Artificial Intelligence in Plain English - Medium
- Building the Operating Environment for AI Systems — Artificial Intelligence on Medium
- Scaling AI calls for a revamped operating model — Information and Enterprise Technology News | CIO Dive - Www.ciodive.com
- Scaling AI With Adaptive Governance — MIT Sloan Management Review
- Hackers hijacked high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email — The Decoder