Amazon Web Services’ Swami Sivasubramanian says that CEOs are no longer worried if AI will add value to their businesses, now they have a new ‘fear’

The ‘Big AI Question’ seems to have changed. Until 2025, the general artificial intelligence (AI) worry was if investment in the technology was really worth it and if it will add to the bottomline. The same has shifted in 2026, and now the key concern is how safe are AI Agents. Companies do not yet trust AI with important decisions. According to a report by GeekWire, this was the general consensus at the recent Madrona’s IA40 Summit. The Madrona’s IA40 Summit is the venture capital company’s annual gathering of AI startups, investors and tech executives. Zico Kolter, the Carnegie Mellon professor who chairs the safety and security committee of OpenAI’s board, said that as of now Companies do not yet trust AI with important decisions. According to Kolter, the ability to control AI systems has to keep pace with their capabilities, which might mean developing them more slowly than is possible.