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85% of Companies Are Testing AI Agents — Only 5% Trust Them Enough to Actually Use Them

VentureBeat·Thursday, 16 July 2026
85% of Companies Are Testing AI Agents — Only 5% Trust Them Enough to Actually Use Them

At the VB Transform 2026 conference, Amazon's Director of AGI Autonomy Bryan Silverthorn explained why AI agents are stuck in pilot mode. Cisco data shows 85% of enterprises are running AI agent pilots, but only 5% have shipped them to real users. The problem, he said, is reliability — not capability.

Why It Matters

Every company is racing to deploy AI agents for work tasks, but this data shows the technology still fails too often for businesses to trust it at scale.

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