81% of CIOs lack full oversight of AI agents built outside IT, Dataiku says

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Most chief information officers cannot fully see the AI agents their staff build outside approved systems, a survey by Dataiku found. 81% of the 685 CIOs polled said they lack complete oversight of AI agents created outside formal channels.

The Harris Poll ran the survey online for Dataiku from 9 to 29 July. It covered CIOs in the US, the UK, France, Germany, the UAE, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. Dataiku, a Paris-founded company now based in New York, released the Global AI Confessions Report: CIO Edition on Thursday at Succeed, its annual conference.

Tracking agents, but not their results

90% of CIOs said they have complete tracking of all their agents. Yet 72% said they cannot consistently confirm whether those agents deliver the business outcomes they were built for.

67% estimate that 51 or more agents are running in production. 83% lack standardised lifecycle management for agents across the...

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