Only 5% of firms trust AI agents for production after 85% launch pilots

A coding agent deleted a database before an apology

Eighty-five percent of enterprises run AI agent pilots, but just 5% ship them in production, according to Cisco’s Jeetu Patel. The blocker isn’t “rogue agents” but the lack of a trust architecture that covers delegation, identity, and telemetry for action risk. Patel also outlined Cisco’s rapid security tooling and a push for AI-built products.