Deloitte AI Institute chief on AI oversight: Governing AI agents is tougher because…

Businesses are ramping up their use of AI agents faster than they’re putting in place adequate guardrails. According to a recently published State of AI in the Enterprise report by Deloitte, based on a survey of over 3,200 business leaders across 24 countries, 23% of companies are currently using AI agents “at least moderately”, but this figure is projected to jump to 74% in the next two years. To compare, the portion of companies that report not using them at all, currently 25%, is expected to shrink to just 5%. However, the rise of agents (AI tools trained to perform multistep tasks with little human supervision) in the workplace isn’t accompanied by adequate guardrails. Only around 21% of respondents told Deloitte that their company currently has robust safety and oversight mechanisms in place to prevent possible harms caused by agents.