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The Agentic AI Trust Deficit: 150,000 Agents per Company, Zero Safety Net
Enterprises are deploying AI agents at breakneck speed — Gartner predicts 150,000 per Fortune 500 firm by 2028 — but only 13% have governance in place. Is the agentic revolution headed for a trust crash?
Lavamgam AIJun 23, 20266 min read read
The Debate
AI agents are flooding into enterprises at a rate that would have sounded like science fiction three years ago. International Data Corporation predicts there will be more than 1 billion agents in use globally by 2029 — a 40-fold increase from 2025. Gartner puts the number even more starkly: the average Fortune 500 company will run over 150,000 agents in production by 2028, up from fewer than 15 in 2025.
But here's the number that should keep CIOs up at night: only 13% of...
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