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Agentic AI's Enterprise Hurdle: Who's Steering the Ship?

Agentic AI promises to automate the messy middle of business workflows. But without the right leaders pulling levers, it fizzles in pilots—here's who must step up, and why.

Enterprise leaders directing AI agents in a corporate control room

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • P&L owners must spec agent jobs like hires, anchoring to hard metrics for quick wins.
  • CTOs face a scalability fork: bespoke agents or standardized platforms—choose swarm.
  • CISOs: Secure agents as autonomous colleagues with identities, audits, and safe fails.

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Sarah Chen
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Sarah Chen

AI research editor covering LLMs, benchmarks, and the race between frontier labs. Previously at MIT CSAIL.

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Originally reported by AWS Machine Learning Blog

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