Businesses are deploying AI agents faster than safety protocols can keep up, Deloitte says

Deloitte’s latest survey of 3,200 leaders finds AI agent adoption rising rapidly (from 23% using them moderately today to a projected 74% in two years) while robust safety and oversight lag (only ~21% report strong controls), underscoring risks from autonomous actions and prompt-injection attacks; the report urges organizations to set clear autonomy boundaries, implement real-time monitoring, and maintain audit trails to manage harm as agentic AI scales.