A significant gap exists between organizational ambitions for agentic AI and their operational readiness to implement it, according to MIT Technology Review. While 85% of organizations report wanting to become agentic within the next three years, 76% acknowledge their current operations and infrastructure cannot support such a transformation.
The findings highlight a critical challenge facing enterprises as they navigate the adoption of AI agents—autonomous systems capable of performing complex tasks with minimal human intervention. According to MIT Technology Review, this disconnect between ambition and execution is emerging amid rapidly growing adoption of enterprise-level AI agents. The data suggests that despite widespread interest in agentic AI technologies, most organizations have not yet built the foundational capabilities necessary to deploy and manage these systems effectively.