AI control becomes a new enterprise resilience priority
Artificial intelligence is moving deeper into enterprise infrastructure, bringing a broader risk horizon with it. As AI progresses from generating text in isolated environments toward initiating transactions, influencing decisions, and contributing to production code, the consequences of an error may extend across interconnected systems.
Splunk’s 2026 research, released by Cisco in partnership with Oxford Economics, estimates that unplanned downtime has reached an annual $600 billion impact across Global 2000 companies, with average downtime costs reaching $15,000 per minute.
Recent cloud disruptions illustrate how the way a change is introduced can affect the scale of an incident. During a significant Google Cloud outage in June 2025, a new feature was activated globally rather than through a gradual rollout, according to Google’s subsequent incident report. When the change triggered failures, the broad deployment meant the impact was immediate across multiple regions and services, including third-party platforms dependent on Google Cloud...
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