{"id":22472,"date":"2026-09-26T20:32:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=22472"},"modified":"2026-09-26T20:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:32:25","slug":"qa-should-enterprises-actually-slow-down-ai-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=22472","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A: Should enterprises actually slow down AI adoption?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phil Christianson, CPO of Xurrent, considers, in conversation with <em>Digital Journal,<\/em> whether enterprises should actually slow down AI adoption <em>(in light of<\/em> <em>recent news and conversations from AI leaders)<\/em>.\u00a0 Christianson considers what a \u201cslow down\u201d would actually look like <em>(and what<\/em> <em>enterprises should slow down)<\/em>, if AI capabilities are starting to outpace security and governance. Christianson, \u2018s focus is with what\u2019s missing in the AI governance conversation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Digital Journal: There\u2019s growing discussion around slowing down AI development. Do you think enterprises should be slowing down their own AI adoption?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Phil Christianson:<\/strong> I think we\u2019re conflating two very different conversations. There\u2019s a conversation happening around the pace of frontier capability development, and then there\u2019s the much larger population of software companies and enterprises figuring out what to do with models that already exist. Those are moving at completely different speeds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s a frontier-capability race happening among a relatively small number of labs, and then there are millions of organizations trying to figure out what to do with models that have already shipped. Those aren\u2019t the same race, and they shouldn\u2019t be governed by the same conversation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DJ: So what would \u201cslowing down\u201d actually look like for an enterprise?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>Christianson<\/strong>:<\/strong> Honestly, many enterprises aren\u2019t in a position to slow down. They\u2019re still trying to turn AI on safely before their employees roll their own. The gap between having an AI policy and actually having AI in production doing useful work is still enormous at many organizations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The same story is playing out on the vendor side. At Xurrent, we\u2019ve added summarizers, low-code generators, virtual agents and AI agents that can function as members of an IT team, and we\u2019re nowhere near the end of that list. Our customers are asking for more, not less. We need to make sure they can adopt it safely and have the right controls around it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DJ: Are AI capabilities starting to outpace what security and governance teams can manage?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>Christianson<\/strong>:<\/strong> I\u2019d push back on that premise a little. The governance challenges haven\u2019t fundamentally changed because we\u2019re moving from foundational models to frontier models. They\u2019re still the disciplines IT has been working on for years: identity, access control, change management, audit trails and knowing who approved what and why.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What\u2019s changed is that we\u2019re introducing a new type of actor into those workflows. An employee has an identity, a service account has defined permissions, and both operate within processes IT already understands. An AI agent can increasingly interact with those same systems and take action, so we need to apply that same discipline to something that isn\u2019t a person and isn\u2019t traditional software.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DJ: What do you think the AI governance conversation is missing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>Christianson<\/strong>:<\/strong> My hot take is that for AI to do anything consequential, a human still has to hand it the keys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Someone has to give it access privileges, credentials, a browser session, API scopes or permission to act on a system. However capable these models become, there\u2019s still very likely a person behind the keyboard who decided to point that AI at something.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s where I think the conversation needs to go. The thing worth slowing down isn\u2019t necessarily the technology. It\u2019s the rate at which organizations grant AI access without a record of who granted it, what it\u2019s allowed to touch and how that access gets revoked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Q: Why is that such a difficult problem for enterprises?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>Christianson<\/strong>:<\/strong> A lot of organizations are still figuring out what AI looks like in production. There\u2019s a big gap between having a policy on paper and actually having AI doing work inside the business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IT has spent decades building processes around employees and service accounts. Organizations know how to manage access, approvals, changes and audit trails in those environments. AI is now entering those same workflows, and companies need to bring that same discipline with it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DJ: If enterprises shouldn\u2019t necessarily slow AI adoption, what should they be slowing down?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>Christianson<\/strong>:<\/strong> I\u2019d slow down the process of giving AI more access without knowing exactly what that access means.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before an agent gets credentials, an API scope or permission to act on a system, an organization should be able to answer three basic questions: Who authorized it? What is it allowed to touch? And how do we revoke that access?\u00a0 They should also have tools in place to monitor the actions taken.\u00a0 I would also say that these considerations are not just about security and protection against AI \u2013 it\u2019s really the same controls you\u2019d put in place for any project. I think a great example we\u2019ve seen is the onboarding of our AI-powered virtual agent (or chatbot). The challenge our customers have had is not about security or compliance; we have that covered. It\u2019s about knowing whether this black box is returning the answers they want.\u00a0 We\u2019ve focused on adding administrative tooling to control, monitor and even massage the output that dramatically increased adoption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI adoption isn\u2019t hypothetical anymore. Employees are using these tools, vendors are building them into their products, and customers are asking for more capabilities. 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