For most of the enterprise, AI is still being built as a copilot: a smarter assistant that helps people work faster while humans remain firmly in control.
Large enterprises that initially insisted on keeping a human directly in the loop are seeing AI agents successfully take on meaningful parts of security operations that previously required significant human effort.
Recent incidents at leading AI labs have shown that powerful agents pursuing poorly constrained goals can create real security incidents without malicious intent.
The initial vision for enterprise AI was largely built around the copilot: AI assisting people while humans remained firmly in control.
In some enterprise functions, AI may not remain an assistant sitting beside the human.