A survey of Fortune 1000 AI and data leaders found ‘techno optimism prevails,’ with 97% of organizations seeing AI as beneficial overall.
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Despite the many concerns around generative AI, businesses are continuing to explore the technology and put it into production, the 2025 AI and Data Leadership Executive Benchmark Survey revealed.
Generative AI is increasingly being put into production, survey author Randy Bean and Tom Davenport, professor of IT and management at Babson College, observed in this year‘s study. Last year, only 5% of respondents said they had put the technology into production at scale; this year 24% have done so. Early-stage production has also increased, from 25% to 47%. Only 29% are still just experimenting with generative AI, versus 70% in the 2024 study.
The study examined AI and generative AI usage in 125 Fortune 1000 organizations. Chief data officers (CDOs), chief data and analytics officers (CDAOs), and chief …