7 briefed items, newest first.
66% run agents in production while 45% lose more than a quarter of expected gains to oversight and rework: the Distrust Tax. Survey of 1,019 B2B decision makers.
G2 · 2026
74% of IT leaders expect to be held accountable for agents they do not fully control; 62% say most agents in use were never formally approved by IT. Survey of 1,001 US IT decision makers.
Workato · May 2026
In firms that adopt generative AI, the junior share of the workforce falls mainly because senior hiring grows, not because junior jobs are cut.
SSRN · 20 Sept 2026
Only about 34% of agentic projects reach production; data fragmentation is cited by 55%, and production leaders rate far stronger on semantic knowledge. Briefing attached: Knowledge Before Agents.
MIT Technology Review Insights · 2026
A field guide turning 37 AI transformation failure patterns into say, change, build responses, with a triage tool.
Field guide · 25 Sept 2026
The first large scale payroll evidence that generative AI is cutting entry level hiring in exposed jobs, which changes the workforce pipeline every AI adoption plan depends on.
Stanford Digital Economy Lab · 26 Aug 2025
The baseline snapshot of how higher education first organised around AI: responsibilities handed out almost everywhere, formal roles almost nowhere.
EDUCAUSE · 8 Dec 2023