Eventually, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Is a Business Partner

Following the Gartner top 10 strategic trends 2024, at the top of the top, there’s AI trust

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The Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2024 article is an inspiring reading that I warmly suggest. It made me write this post, where I want to reason with you about the words that describe the first three trends, which deserve particular attention:

1. AI Trust, Risk and Security Management (AI TRiSM)
2. Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)
3. Sustainable Technology

Let’s listen to those words: trust, risk, security, threat exposure, and sustainability. Is the business world scared by AI? Not really; the business adopts it as a calculated and unavoidable risk and takes proper countermeasures.

Who makes decisions?

Humans, you’d answer, always have the last say of what AI suggests. Ideally, that’s true. But that’d be a superficial answer, even though it appears common sense. Let’s step back into another foundational question: why do humans build and pay for AI?

Again, the answer is straightforward because AI is the fastest known technology to elaborate data. Generative AI can also present…