Gartner Says AI Risk is Rising Faster Than AI Value
Gartner opened its IT Symposium/Xpo 2026 with a keynote arguing that AI risk is growing faster than AI value inside organizations, telling an audience of over 7,500 CIOs that the imperative is to align value with risk. Citing its own 2026 surveys, Gartner reported that 58% of leaders see positive value from AI initiatives, but only 25% of CIOs align technology and business risk, and just 21% have agentic AI governance in place versus 71% expecting to deploy agentic AI within 12 months.
Key figures
- Keynote audience
- over 7,500 CIOs and IT executives
- Pct with agentic ai governance
- 21%
- Pct orgs expecting agentic ai 12mo
- 71%
- Pct cios aligning tech business risk
- 25%
- Pct leaders seeing positive ai value
- 58%
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