Eight in Ten UK Businesses Struggle to Keep Pace with AI Governance, IBM Study Finds
IBM's new survey of 3,221 executives across the UK, EMEA and the Gulf finds 80% of UK executives had an AI-related incident reach their board or C-suite in the past year, yet only 35% changed AI governance policy in response. The study highlights a readiness gap: 68% of UK respondents expect AI agents to have some decision-making autonomy by 2027, but only 53% say their governance can scale to that future.
Key figures
- Pct delay deployment
- 27%
- Pct board ai incident
- 80%
- Survey respondents uk
- 504
- Survey respondents total
- 3221
- Pct changed governance policy
- 35%
- Pct proceed within risk limits
- 61%
- Pct governance scales agentic ai
- 53%
- Pct expect agent autonomy by 2027
- 68%
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