Companies are already using agentic AI to make decisions, but governance is lagging behind

More organizations are letting AI act on their behalf, but far fewer have mature governance to manage the consequences.

By: Murugan Anandarajan, Drexel University, The Conversation

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: January 22, 2026

Words: 966

Last Updated: 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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By Murugan Anandarajan, Drexel University

Businesses are acting fast to adopt agentic AI – artificial intelligence systems that work without human guidance – but have been much slower to put governance in place to oversee them, a new survey shows. That mismatch is a major source of risk in AI adoption. In my view, it’s also a business opportunity.

I’m a professor of management information systems at Drexel University’s LeBow College of …

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