15% of IT application leaders are considering, piloting, or deploying fully autonomous AI agents: Gartner

Only 15% of IT application leaders said they are currently considering, piloting, or deploying fully autonomous AI agents (goal driven AI tools that do not require human oversight), according to a survey by Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company.

In May and June 2025, Gartner conducted an industry-wide survey of 360 IT application leaders from organisations with at least 250 full-time employees in North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific, with the aim of understanding the impact of generative AI (GenAI) and agentic AI across enterprise applications.

“The hype around agentic AI continues to grow, with vendors positioning AI agents as the next phase of AI evolution that will address the shortfalls of more traditional GenAI assistants,” said Max Goss, Senior Director Analyst at Gartner. “Seventy-five percent of survey respondents said they were piloting, were deploying or had already deployed some form of AI agents into their organisation; however ...