InformationWeek Podcast: CTOs on reining in autonomous AI agents

Even Fortune 500 CTOs are pumping the brakes on autonomous AI agents right now.

So why does every vendor act like you should be sprinting?

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You bought the tool. Paid the monthly fee. Nobody touched it after week two. That's not a you problem — that's what happens when AI gets sold before it gets understood. You're not behind. You're just being honest about what actually happened.

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Here's what's quietly shifting at the enterprise level: the smartest tech leaders aren't unleashing AI to run on its own. They're keeping humans in the loop, starting narrow, and expanding only after something actually works.

That's the part the gurus skip. They sell you the vision of full automation. The CTOs running real operations are doing something much smaller first.

For you, that means one thing: pick one repetitive task your team does manually every week. One. Find the simplest tool that handles just that task. Measure the time saved after 30 days.

That's your first win. Nothing gets ripped apart. No one gets fired. No coding required.

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What's one task on your team that feels embarrassingly manual — the kind you keep meaning to fix but never do?

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