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Saxena: Major enterprise AI failures will stem from bad data feeds

Shashank Saxena · Questions Every Founder Must Answer Before Taking an Acquisition Offer | Shashank, VNDLY & Pantomath · Jun 11, 2026 · at 11:37

Shashank Saxena, CEO of Pantomath, explains how broken upstream data pipelines will lead to public enterprise AI agent failures.

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“So at some point, you're going to start seeing front page headlines in the Wall Street Journal saying, this healthcare company or insurance company rejected one million claims, which it shouldn't have because the AI agent went rogue, or this credit card company issued one million credit cards, and now they need to withdraw those back because they should have never issued that, and an AI agent went rogue. It's like, it's not that the AI agent went rogue, right? It's for 12 to 15 hours, the AI agent was fed bad data, And that's why I made a bad decision.”

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