AI - two reports reveal a massive enterprise pause over security and ethics
No one doubts that artificial intelligence is a strategic boardroom issue, though diginomica revealed last year that much of the initial buzz was individuals using free cloud tools as shadow IT, while many business leaders talked up AI in their earnings calls just to keep investors happy.
In 2024, those caveats remain amidst the hype. As one of my stories from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon last week showed, the reality for many software engineering teams is the C-suite demanding an AI ‘hammer’ with little idea of what business nail they want to hit with it.
When we go into a CIO discussion, it’s ‘How can I use Gen-AI?’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t know. What do you want to do with it?’ And the answer is, ‘I don’t know, you figure it out!’
So, now that AI Spring is in full bloom, what is the reality of enterprise adoption? Two reports this week unveil some surprising new findings, many of which show that the hype cycle is ending more quickly than the industry would like.
