Batti: Enterprise CIOs shifted from banning AI to active deployment within 24 months
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Khadim Batti, co-founder of Whatfix, discusses how large enterprise IT departments evolved their stance on AI adoption between 2023 and 2025.
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“18 to 24 months back when I used to speak to a lot of CIOs, one thing people which came out which very common was... Okay, I want to know what you guys are doing in AI... But do not roll out. If you roll out, I'm switching off your software today because they believe I want to know, but I'm not prepared because my IS team, my IT team and IS teams are evolving how to evaluate even their data privacy and data going out or learning and all because nobody knew like how it's going to happen... Last eight to 10 months, I have seen many companies Information security and IT departments, they evolved to evaluate. Fast forward, last three to six months, I have seen many companies have built AI task force saying, what are the low hanging fruits? What are the use case we can actually deploy AI? So the enterprise have moved from just listening what you have to now identifying what are the use case where I can automate or where I can deploy AI.”
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