Enterprise hits and misses - CIOs reckon with AI use cases, and bring on the agentic substrate debate

Lead story - CIO AI gut check - hot topics and use cases

Where do CIOs stand on AI? It's complicated... (See the diginomica network research - CIOs navigate AI's weight of expectation).

This week, Mark Chillingworth put three CIO stories into the mix, all with a different AI angle. Start with AI Bots - a new risk and opportunity for CIOs to manage. The problem? As per Mark:

CIOs and CTOs in our network are seeing an increase in automated traffic to their infrastructure and are worried. These digital leaders represent a diverse set of sectors such as property, financial and professional services, tech firms, academia, manufacturing, media, and charities.

This is not an inexpensive annoyance. One CIO reports a six-figure increase from unwanted traffic. Mark quotes Tom Howe, Director of Field Engineering at Hydrolix:

What was discovered is that bots were crawling sites in a novel way and found a ...