Accelerating AI adoption and governance amid an AI slowdown

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Despite calls for an AI slowdown from leaders of AI frontier labs, most enterprises are more focused on strengthening their governance than on slowing their use of AI.

A new report from OneTrust, an AI data privacy and security vendor, found that while many enterprises experienced AI-related problems in the past year, most are not slowing or pausing their AI deployments. Thoe incidents include IP exposure and AI agents using and delivering and deleting data.

In this Q&A, OneTrust's chief innovation officer, Blake Brannon, discusses why enterprises continue to push forward with AI and how they can focus even more on governance than on the rapid advancement of AI models.

The report mentioned that despite the AI incidents, enterprises are still encouraging the use of AI and AI agents. What is fueling the forward momentum to deploy the technology?

Blake Brannon: From the top down at every company, the number one topic your board is asking you is ‘What are we doing with AI? How are we transforming the way we work, the products and services we build? Are we going to be disrupted by the frontier models, by incumbent startups? What is our moat?’

The pressure is causing everyone to be a little aggressive, accelerating and figuring out how to use AI.

Once you start looking at tools, using tools, and trying to deploy these tools, you very quickly start to worry about how you are going to govern it. How you are going to secure it Everyone is looking at the reality that there are going to be more agents acting than there are humans in every company in the world, within the next two years.

That fundamentally breaks down how traditional governance and security have worked in organizations, because whatever organizations did to protect and safeguard their data used to take weeks. You must figure out how to do that in seconds now.

How does this change lead organizations to invest in governance? How can vendors help with this?

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