IBM Study: Eight in Ten EMEA Enterprises Escalate AI Incidents to Board or C-Suite as AI Agents Test Governance
IBM published new EMEA survey research finding that 80% of executives at large organizations had an AI-related incident reach their board or C-suite in the past year, yet only 40% changed governance policy in response. The study of 3,221 senior executives across eight countries found 75% expect AI agents to have decision autonomy by 2027, but only 37% say their governance is designed to scale with agentic AI.
Key figures
- Survey respondents
- 3221
- Pct delay deployment
- 33%
- Pct incident reached board
- 80%
- Pct vendor supply chain gaps
- 54%
- Pct changed governance policy
- 40%
- Pct financial risk quantified
- 37%
- Pct proceed within risk limits
- 56%
- Pct expect agent autonomy by 2027
- 75%
- Pct running agentic ai in production
- 35%
- Pct governance scales with agentic ai
- 37%
- Pct eu accelerating governance investment
- 41%
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