What's Keeping 5 Tech Executives Up at Night in the AI Era
CIO Dive, Friday, October 23rd, 2026
CIOs at Gartner Symposium named their top AI worries, from overreaching agents to unclear control and consumer agents with weak boundaries.
CIO Dive asked technology executives at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo about their biggest AI concerns, and Capital One Software's Prashant Prahlad said not adopting AI would be an "extinction event."
He added that the Hugging Face incident shows how much the industry still has to learn about agent autonomy and access, and warned against over-securing systems.
Heineken USA CIO Frank Iannella worries about the pace of change and about who actually controls AI systems.
Bowdoin College CIO Michael Cato is most concerned about free consumer agents such as Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots, which he says offer few security boundaries.