Why businesses need clearer limits before AI agents are authorized to act
THE SO WHAT
If only 11% of 2,000 C-level tech execs feel ready for AI agents, the constraint on agentic roadmaps is governance, not model quality. Treat agent deployment like payments or auth—define limits, visibility, and rollback before you let anything touch production systems.
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